Rozsudek

*Rozsudek*
Rozsudek
Genre	Action, crime
Written by	Oldřich Železný
Directed by	Otto Haas
Starring	Václav Voska
Country of origin	Czechoslovakia
Original language	Czech
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	39–47 minutes
Original release
Network	Czechoslovak Television
Release	16 February –; 23 March 1971

Rozsudek (Judgement) is a 1971 Czechoslovak action crime drama television series produced by Czechoslovak Television. The six-part series was directed by Otto Haas and written by Oldřich Železný.

Plot

At the end of the World War II in 1945, an unknown wounded man in a Nazi uniform is found in a German military convoy retreating from Czechoslovakia. After recovering from his physical injuries, he was placed in a sanatorium in Vienna, where he stayed for the next two decades, as he also suffered memory loss and had no idea who he was. Neurosurgeon Nowak performs an experimental medical procedure on him, which is successful: the man remembers that his name is Jakub Rahn, and he begins to recall other memories from his life and from the shock he suffered, which caused him to lose his memory. He escapes from the kidnappers, who are trying to hide him on the other side of the world, and goes back to Czechoslovakia, because he is convinced that it is his duty to fulfill the tasks he was given at the end of the war as a partisan and intelligence officer.

Cast

Václav Voska as Jakub Rahn / Erich / Gerhard Wagner, former partisan and intelligence officer
Bohuš Záhorský as Albert Hönig, Vienna manufacturer
Jiřina Petrovická as Agatha, sister of Albert Hönig
Felix le Breux as doktor Nowak, Vienna neurosurgeon
Vladimír Šmeral as doktor Becher, Vienna neurosurgeon
Jiří Holý as Richard Ohnesorg / Brenner, contractor and dirty work man
Martin Růžek as rada Weingarten, Vienna police commander
Vladimír Ráž as komisař Eberhardt, Vienna policeman
Jan Schánilec as doktor Kurt Henke, Vienna medician
Otakar Brousek as plukovník Veleba, Prague police commander
Petr Kostka as kapitán Zeman, Prague policeman
Zdeněk Kryzánek as Josef Homolka, former partisan
Vladimír Stach as Hugo Strnad, former partisan
Jorga Kotrbová as Marie Zábranská, daughter of Rahn's girlfriend
Gustav Nezval as colonel Jiří Beneš, intelligence officer and Rahn's friend
Bohumil Šmída as generál, commander of Czechoslovak counterintelligence
Ladislav Pešek as colonel Rejsek, retired intelligence officer, Rahn's former commander

Production

The authors of the plot of Rozsudek, the first Czechoslovak television series of an adventurous nature^[1] and an attempt for the widest audience, are Jaroslav Šikl and Josef Šilhavý, the screenplay was written by Oldřich Železný. Director Otto Haas chose Václav Voska for the main role of Jakub Rahn. The music was composed by Luboš Fišer^[2] and recorded by the Film Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Štěpán Koníček. He produced the series Krátký film Praha for Czechoslovak Television.

Filming took place in 1970, in July of that year the filmmakers shot in southern Bohemia, specifically at the border crossing in České Velenice. Exteriors in Suchdol nad Lužnicí and Třebon were also planned. The show was supposed to air in December 1970.^[3] In November 1970, finishing work was underway on the series.^[4]

Simultaneously with the series, in 1971 the Magnet publishing house published a novel adaptation of the story by Jaroslav Šiklo entitled Já, Jakub Rahn (I, Jakub Rahn).^[5]

Broadcast

The series Ruzsudek was broadcast by Czechoslovak Television on second channel during February and March 1971. The first episode premiered on 16 February 1971, more followed in a weekly period, so that the final sixth episode was broadcast on 23 March 1971.

Reception

In his publication Seriály od A do Z: lexikon českých seriálů, Jiří Moc stated in 2009 that the series Rozsudek was already a bit "papery" in his time, but despite the ideological subtext, which was not very visible to the audience, the show's creators used "dramatic moments to create suspenseful detective stories".^[2]

External links

References

^ "Rozsudek na obrazovce". Lidová Demokracie: 5. 1971-02-16. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b Moc, Jiří (2009). Seriály od A do Z: lexikon českých seriál°u (Vyd. 1 ed.). Praha: Česká Televize. p. 205. ISBN 978-80-7404-036-8.
^ "Napínavý televizní seriál". NDK.cz. Lidová demokracie: 4. 1970-07-17. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
^ "Václav Voska vytváří hlavní roli". Lidová Demokracie: 3. 1970-11-02. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
^ Adamovič, Ivan; Neff, Ondřej; Olša, Jaroslav (1995). Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Praha: Vydav. a nakl. R3. p. 213. ISBN 80-85364-57-3.

[Rozsudek_na_obrazovce_s5-1] "Rozsudek na obrazovce". Lidová Demokracie: 5. 1971-02-16. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

[Lexikon-2] Moc, Jiří (2009). Seriály od A do Z: lexikon českých seriál°u (Vyd. 1 ed.). Praha: Česká Televize. p. 205. ISBN 978-80-7404-036-8.

[Napínavý_televizní_seriál-3] "Napínavý televizní seriál". NDK.cz. Lidová demokracie: 4. 1970-07-17. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

[Václav_Voska_vytváří_hlavní_roli-4] "Václav Voska vytváří hlavní roli". Lidová Demokracie: 3. 1970-11-02. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

[Slovník-5] Adamovič, Ivan; Neff, Ondřej; Olša, Jaroslav (1995). Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Praha: Vydav. a nakl. R3. p. 213. ISBN 80-85364-57-3.

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