Svědek umírajícího času (1991)

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.

Cast (77)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Petr Čepek

Jan Jesenius

Emma Černá

Maria

Rudolf Hrušínský

Rudolf II.

Miloš Nedbal

Fels

Martin Huba

Johannes Kepler

Milan Kňažko

Jan Mydlář

Leoš Suchařípa

Pavel Michna z Vacínova

Táňa Fischerová

Floro

Jan Kačer

Jáchym Ondřej Šlik

Stano Dančiak

Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic

M

Mikuláš Huba

Bohuslav z Michalovic

Ota Sklenčka

Václav Budovec z Budova

Lubomír Kostelka

Jindřich Matyáš Thurn

Václav Knop

Ferdinand II.

Andrej Hryc

Franz Melchiar

Jan Kanyza

Zdeněk Vojtěch Popel z Lobkovic

Jiří Bartoška

Fridrich Falcký

Vít Olmer

Vilém Slavata z Chlumu a Košumberka

Karel Augusta

Jaroslav Bořita z Martinic

Bohuslav Čáp

Filip Fabricius

Václav Vydra

Albrecht Jan Smiřický

Zuzana Kronerová

Beata

J

Jiří Kostka

Kašpar Kaplíř ze Sulevic

Dana Hlaváčová

Elfrieda

Vlastimil Venclík

Jacob Hoefnagel

Bára Štěpánová

Pia

Bronislav Poloczek

Jakub

Jan Kuželka

Gregorius

Rostislav Kuba

Ambrosius

František Husák

Ostrštok

Jan Teplý

Přibík Jeníšek z Újezda

M

Marta Richterová

Vladimír Hrubý

Priest

Oldřich Velen

Rudolf Hrušínský

M

Milan Riehs

Josef Karlík

Tycho de Brahe

František Řehák

Vavřinec Benedikt z Nudožer

Pavol Mikulík

don Baltasar de Zúñiga

K

Karel Brožek

David Lippach

M

Milan Klacek

Filip Lang z Langenfelsu

Yvetta Kornová

Dorotka

Věra Tichánková

Ladislav Křiváček

Seppl

Zdeněk Srstka

V

Václav Kaňkovský

Zita Furková

S

Stanislav Hájek

J

Josef Žluťák Hrubý

Václav Kotva

Vlado Černý

Kateřina Urbancová

Stanislava Bartošová

M

Miloš Pietor

František Kovár

Peter Debnár

Matouš Děpolt Popel z Lobkovic

J

Jiří Prýmek

Jan Daniel Kapr z Kaprštejna

K

Karel Fořt

Announcer

Miloš Vavruška

Kristián I. Anhaltský

Anna Maľová

Bohunka

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