At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius. He ended up on the scaffold along with other gentlemen after losing the anti-Habsburg uprising. When director Miloslav Luther conceived the idea of making an abridged version of the footage for cinema, he had to not only rebuild the storyline but also dub it into Czech. However, the result was only an illustrative puzzle, describing the various stages of the hero's turbulent life.
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Petr Čepek
Jan Jesenius
Emma Černá
Maria
Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf II.
Miloš Nedbal
Fels
Martin Huba
Johannes Kepler
Milan Kňažko
Jan Mydlář
Leoš Suchařípa
Pavel Michna z Vacínova
Táňa Fischerová
Floro
Jan Kačer
Jáchym Ondřej Šlik
Stano Dančiak
Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic
Mikuláš Huba
Bohuslav z Michalovic
Ota Sklenčka
Václav Budovec z Budova
Lubomír Kostelka
Jindřich Matyáš Thurn
Václav Knop
Ferdinand II.
Andrej Hryc
Franz Melchiar
