Horn
23rd November 2014, 06:09 PM
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It’s astounding for any military leader to be put in the same category as Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, but in the case of Jan Žižka, such a distinction is absolutely warranted. This general from south Bohemia, who wore a patch over one eye (earning him the nickname “jednooký Žižka,” or “One-eyed Žižka”) and led the Hussite army at the beginning of the 15th century, never lost a single battle as military commander and thus joins an elite group of fewer than 10 such figures in the history of warfare.
Perhaps it is no surprise that he would form the basis of a new film project, headed by Kajínek filmmaker Petr Jákl, but Jákl says he is less interested in the battle scenes than the development of the character, and in fact, the film, expected to start shooting later this year, would only focus on one part of Žižka’s life, before the wars that made him famous.
“The period I’m interested in is the two years, from 1400 to 1402 or 1403, when the new king, Wenceslaus IV, the son of Charles IV, was kidnapped,” Jákl told The Prague Post. “This was the time when Žižka was coming back to the Kingdom of Bohemia, and he sees how everything has changed.”
For Jákl, the events around this time are particularly remarkable because their impact on the young Žižka is so far-reaching, both immediately and years later when he is commanding the Hussite army following the burning of Jan Hus (about whom a new television miniseries is currently in production (http://www.praguepost.com/cinema/39617-production-starts-on-jan-hus-films)). Although these two years comprise the major part of the narrative, the foil will be an incident in Žižka’s teenage years, when the help he gives to someone leads to his family being punished, and he only realizes during his adult years that what he did at the time was right. The story will be that of “the birth of a warrior.”
Jákl is a stuntman and longtime judoka whose début picture, Kajínek, sold more than 790,000 tickets and was the most successful film in the Czech Republic in 2011, after the comedy Women in Temptation (Ženy v pokušení) and James Cameron’s Avatar. He says the film’s success at the box office allowed him the chance to get money for his upcoming project, which is expected to cost around 100 million Kč. Three Brothers Production in the Czech Republic, which is currently also producing a film about King Charles IV, to be released in 2016, (http://www.praguepost.com/cinema/21480-the-return-of-the-king) and German production company EVA film have signed up as co-producers.
He has had a project about Žižka in mind for many years but started seriously considering the story after the release of Kajínek. “I want to find out why people can be strong enough to be leaders, to do what they want and to devote everything they have to it. ... This story is about an outlaw, a mercenary, who experienced many things that changed him, and that is why, later on, he became so successful and never lost.”
Read more: http://praguepost.com/cinema/39644-jan-zizka-biopic-in-the-works#ixzz3Jwa9aI7D
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It’s astounding for any military leader to be put in the same category as Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, but in the case of Jan Žižka, such a distinction is absolutely warranted. This general from south Bohemia, who wore a patch over one eye (earning him the nickname “jednooký Žižka,” or “One-eyed Žižka”) and led the Hussite army at the beginning of the 15th century, never lost a single battle as military commander and thus joins an elite group of fewer than 10 such figures in the history of warfare.
Perhaps it is no surprise that he would form the basis of a new film project, headed by Kajínek filmmaker Petr Jákl, but Jákl says he is less interested in the battle scenes than the development of the character, and in fact, the film, expected to start shooting later this year, would only focus on one part of Žižka’s life, before the wars that made him famous.
“The period I’m interested in is the two years, from 1400 to 1402 or 1403, when the new king, Wenceslaus IV, the son of Charles IV, was kidnapped,” Jákl told The Prague Post. “This was the time when Žižka was coming back to the Kingdom of Bohemia, and he sees how everything has changed.”
For Jákl, the events around this time are particularly remarkable because their impact on the young Žižka is so far-reaching, both immediately and years later when he is commanding the Hussite army following the burning of Jan Hus (about whom a new television miniseries is currently in production (http://www.praguepost.com/cinema/39617-production-starts-on-jan-hus-films)). Although these two years comprise the major part of the narrative, the foil will be an incident in Žižka’s teenage years, when the help he gives to someone leads to his family being punished, and he only realizes during his adult years that what he did at the time was right. The story will be that of “the birth of a warrior.”
Jákl is a stuntman and longtime judoka whose début picture, Kajínek, sold more than 790,000 tickets and was the most successful film in the Czech Republic in 2011, after the comedy Women in Temptation (Ženy v pokušení) and James Cameron’s Avatar. He says the film’s success at the box office allowed him the chance to get money for his upcoming project, which is expected to cost around 100 million Kč. Three Brothers Production in the Czech Republic, which is currently also producing a film about King Charles IV, to be released in 2016, (http://www.praguepost.com/cinema/21480-the-return-of-the-king) and German production company EVA film have signed up as co-producers.
He has had a project about Žižka in mind for many years but started seriously considering the story after the release of Kajínek. “I want to find out why people can be strong enough to be leaders, to do what they want and to devote everything they have to it. ... This story is about an outlaw, a mercenary, who experienced many things that changed him, and that is why, later on, he became so successful and never lost.”
Read more: http://praguepost.com/cinema/39644-jan-zizka-biopic-in-the-works#ixzz3Jwa9aI7D
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