Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestA chronicle of the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire and the rise of the Balkan states.
Acting
Vetchý and Donutil's tense political rivalry simmers magnificently.
Production
Authentic Prague locations that reek of dying imperial grandeur.
Ondřej Vetchý
Alois Rašín
Miroslav Donutil
Karel Kramář
Zuzana Stivínová
Karla Rašínová
Lenka Vlasáková
Naděžda Kramářová
Tomáš Töpfer
Markus Preminger
Viktor Preiss
Josef Scheiner
Petr Štěpán
Přemysl Šámal
Vítězslav Jandák
František Fiedler
Ondřej Malý
Zdeněk Tobolka
Jan Novotný
František Udržal
Jiří Oberfalzer
Antonín Švehla
Jan Plouhar
František Sís
Adrian Jastraban
Eduard Koerner
Martin Finger
Mořic Hruban
Ondřej Novák
Vincenc Červinka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jiří Svoboda is a former Czech Communist Party politician, making his handling of this nationalist subject fascinatingly complicated.
The series aired on ČT2 to minimal fanfare, embodying exactly the obscure historical footnote it portrays—Czech prestige television that almost nobody watched.
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