I forgot to tell you, but given how our post on the first season is getting high views again, I thought I would share the trailer for the second
The series streams on PBS' Walter Presents channel
season of GOLDEN SWAN Czech historical drama which has nine episodes in the new run. The season premiered on PBS on August 1, 2025. It continues the story of the Zlatá labuť department store and its employees during wartime. Key storylines include Marta's silence about her attacker, Marek's plot for revenge, and Eva's evening with Martin. The show also explores themes of love, betrayal, and the impact of war on personal lives. The first season followed Bára Veselá, who, fleeing from the law, becomes an accidental saleswoman at Prague's new Zlatá labut department store. Behind its luxurious facade, history unfolds as Nazi forces enter Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. The third season is coming up soon as well.
This one already aired in its homeland Czech republic back in 2023 but it hitting PBS Master- piece channel Walter Presents on Prime Video February 21st with English subtitles. THE GOLDEN SWAN (Zlatá labut) historical drama is set in a department store just like some of the German and British costume dramas we've seen before. It starts in 1939, when Bára Veselá (Marta Dancingerová), a young woman on the run from the law, unwillingly becomes a salesperson in the fashion department at Golden Swan, the newly-opened luxury department store in Prague, owned by the Kučera family.
While the family’s rebellious and youngest son, Petr (Adam Vacula), takes a shine to Bára, his sister, Irena (Kristyna Ryska), a lover of luxury and power, decides to fight for the leadership of the family business. Meanwhile, German occupation forces are invading the Czechoslovakian state.
After playing in Czech cinemas, doing a round at movie festivals and then scoring six Lion Awards, the Czech Academy Awards (including Best Picture
Il Boemo is streaming on Netflix
and Best Director) historical drama IL BOEMO, directed by Petr Václav about 18th century Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, is now, if I am not mistaken, available for the viewers around the world for streaming over at Netflix!
STORY IS SET IN 1764.
In a libertine Venice, the musician and composer Josef
Myslivecek (Voyteh Dyk), nicknamed "Il Boemo", does not manage to break through
despite his talent. His affair with a woman from the court allows him to
achieve his dream and compose an opera. From then on his fame grew, but
The movie was directed by Petr Vaclav
how far would he go? The life, work and escapades of a forgotten genius
composer whom the young Mozart admired.
As critic Srikanth Srinivasan says, luxuriant biopic of the eighteenth-century composer Josef Mysliveček, Petr Václav’s IL BOEMO chronicles the Czech musician’s travails and triumphs as an outsider attempting to make it as an opera composer in cut-throat, cosmopolitan Italy. Mysliveček is a man of talent, but also of magnetic charm, who multiplies his sexual conquests as he progresses from court to court, all the while trying to keep his head above water.
Exquisitely shot in warm tones, Václav’s film takes place in a number of Italian cities, but it refuses to offer us touristic images or indulge in baroque displays of period details. We are instead immersed in elaborate indoor scenes rich in atmosphere and human interaction – such as the tense, dazzlingly edited premiere of Myslivecek’s opera in Naples – that allow actors the room to breathe and perfect their performances.
Centring on two eventful decades in the composer’s time in Italy, IL BOEMO depicts the earnest efforts of a gifted artist to actualise himself despite compromises and creeping poverty. That Mysliveček’s life coincided with the epochal appearance of Mozart gives his story a tragic dimension. With wisdom and tenderness, the film evokes how history passed by Mysliveček even as he was trying to find a place in it.
We finally have the first teaser trailer for new historical adventure MEDIEVAL which sees American actor Ben Foster playing Czech national hero and warlord
The film should be out this September
Jan Zizka who was a powerful figure in the famous Hussite wars in the medieval times. With
the massive budget of about $20 million, the new historical movie was shot on the sets near Prague and around Czech republic. Superhunky Czech actor and judo champion Petr Jakl has both written and directed the movie! He is not the only athlete in the production as legendary Czech decathlon world recorder Roman Sebrle is also in the cast! I am personally a bit disappointed with the trailer as the film in it looks a bit cheap and Ben proves he is just not up to the task due to lack of talent and charisma, especially for this kind of role, not to mention he looks too much
William Moseley plays Jan' brother, brave Jaroslav!
American. But we shall still give this film a go when it comes out later this year. You can check out the teaser below and tell us your thoughts.
WHAT'S THE MOVIE ABOUT?
MEDIEVAL will follow their 14th century national hero Jan Zizka of
Trocnov (Ben Foster), a revered military tactician who defeated armies
of the
William Moseley, Ben Foster and Michael Caine in the film!
Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for his
innovative strategies and for quickly training peasants to face skilled
and armoured
Matthew Goode plays King Sigismund of Hungary and Croatia
opponents who usually outnumbered his own troops. The historical adventure film
will also have another storyline which will revolve around his
Til Schweiger is the richest man in the country in the film!
relationship with king's lover, a rich heiress Catherine (Sophie
Lowe), whom he is sent to save but unexpectedly falls in love with her, while another storyline will describe his fight
against a rival king.
WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?
Our favourite William Moseley plays Jan's brother Jaroslav, legendary Michael Caine is Lord Boresh the right hand of Czech King Wenceslaus and
Karel Roden is King Wenceslaus in the movie
German superstar Til Schweiger is Rosenberg, the richest lord in the kingdom. British thespian Matthew Goode will portray King Sigismund of
Czech world record breaker Roman Sebrle plays one of the knights
Hungary and Croatia, the brother of Czech King Wenceslaus, and if my
eyes are not playing with me he will have a blondish hair in the movie!
Czech actor Karel Roden is playing King Wenceslaus himself!
It has been announced today that among the series that will have its premieres at Berlin Film Festival this year is also eight part period set series on FREUD coming from Austrian ORF and Netflix. Today you can
The series will air globally sometime later this year
check out the first photos from the series directed by Marvin Krenand starring Robert Finster, Ella Rumpf, Georg Friedrich, Christoph
Young Robert Finster takes the lead role of the famous psychiatrist
Krutzler, Brigitte Kren, Anja Kling, Philipp Hochmair, Noah Saavedra. Austrian German production shot in Czech capital Prague and Austrian Vienna will stream this year globally at Netflix.
Crime Thriller Series Freud
blending a period setting with a contemporary style, will be a modern, sexy and suspenseful take on the life of
the celebrated doctor.
FREUD tells the
The series will first air in Austria on their national television ORF
story of the young psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (Robert
Finster) in Vienna in 1886, just as Freud's revolutionary theories are
being met with strong
Ella Rumpf plays the infamous medium Madame Salome
opposition from colleagues and wider Austrian
society. It is at this time he meets the war veteran and policeman
Alfred Kiss (Georg Friedrich) and
Georg Friedrich, right, is policeman Alfred Kiss
notorious medium Fleur Salomé (Ella
Rumpf) and unwittingly becomes part of a nerve-racking investigation
into a murderous conspiracy.
Well, he sure was atrociously miscast and bad in Warcraft, but someone obviously thinks he is still suited for period set movies: Ben Foster will lead the cast of new historical adventure MEDIEVAL which will describe the story of Czech 14th century national hero Zizka (Jan Zizka of Trocnov), a revered military tactician who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
He is known for his innovative strategies and for quickly training
peasants to face skilled and armoured opponents who usually outnumbered
his own troops. The English language film helmed by Czech director Petr
Jákl will also depict his relationship with a local heiress and his
face-off against a rival king.
history unfolds as Nazi forces enter Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. The third season is coming up soon as well. 
history unfolds as Nazi forces enter Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. The third season is coming up soon as well. 
