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Černí Baroni (book)
''Černí baroni'' may refer to: * ''Černí baroni'' (novel), a 1969 satirical novel written by Miloslav Švandrlík * ''Černí baroni'' (film), a 1992 Czechoslovak comedy film * ''Černí baroni'' (TV series), a Czech television series that aired in 2004 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Černí Baroni (novel)
''Černí baroni'' (''Black barons'') is a satirical novel written by Miloslav Švandrlík during the period of the Prague Spring and published in 1969. Subsequent publication of the book in Czechoslovakia was only made possible after the Velvet Revolution, in 1990. The work takes as its background one of the "technical auxiliary battalions" of the Czechoslovak People's Army. The subtitle ''Válčili jsme za Čepičky'' (We fought for Čepička) is a reference to then-Minister of Defense, Alexej Čepička. The story was made into a film of the same name in 1992 and a television series in 2003. Background The first part of the book was published in 1969 by Vysočina (Havlíčkův Brod) and consists of seventeen chapters, ending with one of the main characters, Kefalín, desperate to extend his service for another year, getting drunk on cider. Švandrlík continued writing the second part, though due to the post-Prague Spring normalization, it could not be published in Czechos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Černí Baroni (film)
''Černí baroni'' is a Czechoslovak comedy film released in 1992. The movie is directed by Zdenek Sirový and stars Václav Vydra, Jan Kraus, Miroslav Donutil, Jiří Schmitzer, and Ondřej Vetchý. It is based on the 1969 novel '' Černí baroni'' by Miloslav Švandrlík. Synopsis The film presents "Pétepáky"—members of the Technical auxiliary battalion—an army battalion formed by people known as class enemies of communism in Czechoslovakia Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a so ... in the 1950s. The group includes intellectuals, people of bourgeois origins, peasants, religious adherents, etc. This group is offset by their commanders, who are uneducated but politically active. From the clashes between the two groups, absurd situations arise, parodying the con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |