10.050 minSeason 2 • Episode 6
LatestHasil crosses the border one last time to finally take Marie and his son with him. However, the border guards know everything and launch an extensive operation with only one goal: to kill Josef Hasil. The final battle worthy of the true King of the Šumava begins.
It is the spring of 1948. The joy of peace has not yet faded, and both East and West are already afraid of World War III. Both worlds are separated from each other by the deep forests of Šumava. Twenty-four-year-old cook Josef Hasil serves in the kitchen of the National Security Corps in Zvonková. Wild boy. He had already experienced the war in a German labor camp and as a link between partisans. Now he longs above all for fun, adventure, freedom. The last thing he cares about is politics.
Cinematography
Šumava forests shot like a haunted character
Acting
Oskar Hes sells chaos with a charming smirk
Production
Painstaking 1948 period detail, down to the kitchen
Creator
David Ondříček
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hasil was a real folk hero in communist Czechoslovakia, his exploits blurred into legend by whispered retelling.
Ondříček filmed in actual Šumava locations where Hasil hid, including bunkers still marked by locals.
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