Štíty království českého

At first I had a feeling that this documentary doesn’t have any conception because it jumped from one castle to another and most of them were situated in Bohemia, as if Moravia and Silesia didn’t exist at all. Later on I got used to this storytelling style because the duo of narrators – layman Jarda Plesl and professional archaeologist Tomáš Durdík complemented each other perfectly. I was nicely surprised mainly by Jarda Plesl, because his enthusiasm for castles made me really happy. He is a great actor with the same interest as me. That, for me, elevates the conception of this document to a higher level. And what’s more, even if I didn’t get why it was situated in Bohemia only, I was glad that he talked of castles that I’m familiar with. I learned a lot of new interesting stuff and what I liked the most were moments when the camera focused on the current state of the castle or a ruin and afterwards the nice drawing of what the castle used to look like was added to the picture. It was unbelievable, especially in the case of the castle of Veliš. Another beautiful series from Czech Television production about medieval history of our lands. (07.01.2020)