Vlasta Dvořáčková: The Virtue of Czech Nobility

A special adaptation of one of the best humorous stories of Matteo Bandello, the famous storyteller of the Italian Renaissance. Starring Klára Jerneková and Petr Štěpánek. The stories of the great Italian Renaissance poet and writer Matteo Bandello have gone down in the history of literature and inspired many playwrights. Even William Shakespeare was familiar with them, and based on them he wrote the plays Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet and An Evening of the Three Kings. The Czech poet and translator Vlasta Dvořáčková (1924-2018) chose one of Matteo Bandello's humorous stories for her adaptation. It emphasizes the themes of loyalty, love and sacrifice. The production was made in 1980 by director Alena Adamcová with an excellent cast. Persons and cast: Barbora (Klara Jernekova), Oldrich (Petr Stepanek), Baron Albert (Josef Somr), Count Ladislav (Miroslav Moravec), The Jester (Bořivoj Navrátil), maid (Růžena Merunková), Queen (Jaroslava Adamová), the king (Vilém Besser), the obliging courtier (Jaroslav Cmíral), a court lady (Jarmila Švehlová) and a doctor (Josef Patočka)