The Black Barons
Audiobook
The Black Barons
Another edition of the well-known and popular work from the pen of the renowned author and proven storyteller Miloslav Švandrlík
This now-classic title, reminiscent of the recent past, in which the author, who performed his compulsory military service from 1953–55 in the Auxiliary Technical Battalions in western and southern Bohemia, describes in a colourful and distinctive way the everyday absurdities of an extraordinary era of post-war Czechoslovak-Soviet friendship and its reflection not only in the lives of military conscripts – the PTPs. The subtitle 'We Fought for Čepička' alludes to the then Minister of Defence, Alexej Čepička.
The book, or rather its 17 chapters of the 'first part', was first published by the Vysočina publishing house in 1969, and for the next twenty years, the stories of the 'second part' could only be spread by word of mouth or by being copied. The text did not see a complete edition until after the political changes in 1990.
The novel The Black Barons was also successfully made into a film in 1992 (director: Zdeněk Sirový; screenplay: M. Švandrlík, Z. Sirový), and in 2002, an eleven-part series was filmed at the Brno studio of Czech Television, supplemented with stories from other novels: They Called Him Terazky and Lieutenant Hamáček's Five Axes.
Miloslav Švandrlík
An exceptionally prolific humorist, author of more than a thousand magazine short stories, almost a hundred books, 25,000 ideas for Neprakta's cartoons, many comic book series, scripts for television programmes, a long-time collaborator with Miloslav Šimek at the Semafor theatre, and a good man… Visits to mysterious cemeteries, black swamps, or dark city corners were Švandrlík's unceasing inspiration, and each of his stories attests to his fondness for mysticism, mysteries, but also for ordinary human mischief and spite.
David Novotný
After graduating from the Prague Conservatory, he worked at the South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice. His longest-running engagement to date has been at the Dejvice Theatre under the direction of Miroslav Krobot. David Novotný also has many film and television roles to his name, such as Jarda Kužel in the series (and film) Okresní přebor, Karel Holec in the series Kukačky, Jirka Švec in Jiří Havelka's film Vlastníci, and he also played himself in the series The Downfall of the Dejvice Theatre. He is extensively involved in dubbing and is also popular as an audiobook narrator.
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