Movielogr
Svědek umírajícího času (1991)
Directed by Miloslav Luther
Overview
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.
Actors
Petr Čepek | Emma Cerná | Rudolf Hrušínský | Miloš Nedbal | Martin Huba | Milan Kňažko | Leoš Suchařípa | Táňa Fischerová | Jan Kačer | Stano Dančiak | Mikuláš Huba | Ota Sklenička | Lubomír Kostelka | Václav Knop | Andrej Hryc | Jan Kanyza | Jiří Bartoška | Vít Olmer | Karel Augusta | Bohuslav Čáp | Václav Vydra | Zuzana Krónerová | Jiří Kostka | Dana Hlaváčová | Vlastimil Venclík | Bára Štěpánová | Bronislav Poloczek | Jan Kuželka | Rostislav Kuba | František Husák | Jan Teplý | Marta Richterová | Vladimír Hrubý | Oldřich Velen | Rudolf Hrušínský ml. | Milan Riehs | Josef Karlík | František Řehák | Pavol Mikulík | Karel Brožek | Milan Klacek | Yvetta Kornová | Věra Tichánková | Ladislav Křiváček | Zdeněk Srstka | Václav Kankovský | Zita Furková | Stanislav Hájek | Josef Hruby | Václav Kotva | Vlado Černý | Kateřina Urbancová | Stanislava Bartošová | Miloš Pietor | František Kovár | Peter Debnar | Jirí Prýmek | Karel Fort | Miloš Vavruška | Anna Maľová | Bohuslav Ličman | František Kubíček | Jožka Stoklasa | Peter Bzdúch | Petr Drozda | Jiří Adamíra | Gustav Opočenský | Ladislav Frej | Vladimír Ráž | Daniela Bartáková | Steva Maršálek | Vladimír Salač | Radan Rusev | Jiří Zavřel | Jiří Havel | Ladislav Krečmer | Mirko Musil