You live in some sort of sandbox where some entities are always at war. Mount & Blade is a video game that mix FPS and RPG. As such, it should be about wars between the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in the late 17th century.Īnd this leads me to Mount & Blade. Even though it’s the first movie (1968!), it’s the last book of the trilogy nonetheless. I haven’t watched Pan Wołodyjowski, “Colonel Wolodyjowski”, yet, simply because so far I did not manage to get an original version in proper quality. Even though Bohun isn’t all evil, Kmicic is a much more complex character, feeling always on the wrong side and forced to be for honor. The story is much more subtle than Ogniem i mieczem. The main character, Andrzej Kmicic, will notably take part in the defense of the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa. As the title suggests, it’s about the period following Khmelnytsky uprising called in poland Potop szwedzki, the invasion of the Commonwealth by swedish forces of king Karl X Gustav. Potop, “The Deluge”, the second movie, way older, is the adaptation of the second book. The little story is kind of simple though, it opposes two characters, Jan Skrzetuski and Yuri Bohun, in war, the later being a cossack, and for the love of some girl. It depicts Khmelnytsky Uprising: a cossacks‘s rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule that, at some point led to the idea of Ukraine as autonomous state, which won’t really happen durably until 1917.
Ogniem i mieczem, “With Fire and Sword”, the most recent movie, is the adaptation of the first book.
Familiar with Henryk Sienkiewicz? Ever watched Quo Vadis? No? Ever heard about a mess in Central/Eastern Europe about Russia, Ukraine and Crimea? Interested? Then Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy is worth a look, even if, or because, it’s about this area in 17th century and not nowadays.
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