At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius. He ended up on the scaffold along with other gentlemen after losing the anti-Habsburg uprising. When director Miloslav Luther conceived the idea of making an abridged version of the footage for cinema, he had to not only rebuild the storyline but also dub it into Czech. However, the result was only an illustrative puzzle, describing the various stages of the hero's turbulent life.
Stars: Petr Čepek, Emma Černá, Rudolf Hrušínský, Miloš Nedbal, Martin Huba, Milan Kňažko
Crew: Miloslav Luther (Director), Jiří Blažek (Creative Producer), Jiří Ulrich (Executive Producer), Vladimír Körner (Screenplay), Marian Puobiš (First Assistant Director), Jan Křížek (First Assistant Director)
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Český, Deutsch
Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
Runtime: 1:47:31 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 01, 1991
IMDb: 5
Keywords:17th century, 16th century
