Královskýomyl

Oldrich Danek, the scriptwriter for"Hic Sunt Leones", who made his debut as a director in 1960 with the officially irreproachable"Three Tons of Dust" ("Tri tuny prachu"), also turned to history -"The Nuremberg Campaign" ("Spanila jizda" - 1963) - to seek metaphors for the present. In 1967, Danek made his best film,"The Royal Blunder" ("Kralovsky omyl"), a fourteenth-century tale about the relativity of despotic power.Historical material was by far the best medium for Frantisek Vlacil, who in 1967 completed his unique reconstruction of thirteenth-century Bohemia,"Marketa Lazarova", based on the novel by V. Vancura. Supported by the photography of B. Batka, he achieved an almost flawless recreation of a period that hovered between paganism and Christianity and filled it with authentic portraits of people from another civilization.