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Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was...

A not too brave knight is looking for eternal fame and fortune. According to legend, however, he must first save a princess from the clutches of a...

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by...

The tale of the brave warrior Dobrynya Nikitich and his fight against the three-headed dragon, Zmey Gorynych.

St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas.[2] It was the most expensive Czech...

Rudolf Měšťák’s silent film The Prague Executioner, based on the novel of the same name by Josef Svátek, is a historical...

Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the face of modern Europe, unleashing fundamentalism,...

Wang Fo, the greatest master of medieval China, aided by his assistant who has given up everything to follow him, desperately seeks aesthetic...

Mindless tells the story of Peter (Nicholas Vince), a senile middle aged man who's house is torn apart day after day. Is Peter a risk to himself or...