Maria Theresa: A Miniseries

Last night, after an exhausting social day, I had an insightful together with amusing chat amongst an extraordinary physicist together with man. I won't tell yous who he was but about of the discussions were virtually the human relationship betwixt the amplituhedron together with postulates of quantum mechanics. ;-) Among other consequences, I had to delay watching Maria Theresa, an ambitious 2-episode miniseries virtually our glorious empress.



A trailer

I only watched the rootage episode which was originally aired final black together with I constitute it real entertaining together with impressive. The celluloid was created inward the coproduction of all iv major successor states of Austro-Hungarian Empire – of Czechia, Austria, Hungary, together with Slovakia. (The empire may also go called Czechoaustrohungaroslovakia. Apologies to Slovenes together with others that they weren't include. If yous care, all the Austrian-Hungarian celluloid people were communicating inward English linguistic communication – which has plainly replaced German linguistic communication equally the principal tongue franca of the Austrian Empire LOL.)




In practice, the Czech actors together with filmmakers did most of the work – together with I gauge that the Austrians convey paid most of the budget which was virtually $6 million. That's a generous budget. I mean value that this is a setup that was successful inward the 1980s when lots of wonderful fairy-tales together with serials were created inward the Czechoslovak-WestGerman coproduction. West Germans would contribute most of the coin together with Czechs would contribute most of the arts. ;-)

The miniseries bought about 500 wigs, created 2,500 costumes, hired 2,500 supernumeraries. It was inward no means a inexpensive amateurish movie.




Both episodes of the Slovak edition may go watched on YouTube at this moment.

Maria Theresa was born inward 1717, i.e. 300+ years ago, together with was the solely queen inward the Czech history. She wasn't only about other monarch. She was i of the most of import ones. The bird of modernization of our, Habsburg Empire was extraordinary. Famously enough, schoolkids loathe her for making their instruction compulsory.

She has introduced lots of such reforms. For example, postal addresses included numbers for the rootage time. Previously, houses would solely go known equally the "House of Two Suns" (a well-known edifice inward Prague's Lesser Town). She robbed the Jesuits of their command over the schools. She has introduced about practical modern firefighting regulations. Serfdom was softened – together with later on abolished past times her boy Joseph II inward 1781. And together with then on together with and then on. The army, schools, bureaucracy, shipping service offices, wellness care, roads, together with other things were immensely modernized, too.

The blockbuster focuses on the interactions betwixt her emotions together with politics. When she was a kid, she was assumed to go a standardized aristocratic woman somebody – i.e. an automaton that gives nativity to manlike somebody heirs to the throne, similar her woman bring upwards together with others. At about moment, nosotros larn that her woman bring upwards has had about problem amongst liver together with the medications, inward combination amongst her historic menstruum inward a higher house 40, made it unlikely that Maria Theresa would always acquire a brother, a proper manlike somebody heir to the Habsburg throne.

As a kid, she barbarous inward love amongst Francis I. The adults had real different plans, this duke of Lorraine (a portion close Deutschland that belongs to French Republic now) was considered equally good weak, together with and then on. For about time, she was assumed to comport together with get married whoever is skilful politically according to her begetter together with his advisers etc.

But rather early on, nosotros are shown that she decided to larn the detailed political issues inward quite about special – thankfully, she constitute a loyal professor who taught her what she needed. She was clearly an extraordinary musician together with after about time, it was her who was dictating the rules of the game. Despite worries that Francis I no longer loved her, they got married, her hubby Francis I sacrificed his Lorraine but gained Tuscany instead, a major prince who opposed the wedlock (represented past times the same Hungarian thespian equally Joseph Goebbels inward the Lída Baarová blockbuster) died at the same moment, together with the novel purplish brace made Europe much to a greater extent than peaceful than what it would go otherwise.

Habsburgs were mocked equally existence unable to make boys – she had a sister, Maria Anna, but no brothers together with her rootage 3 kids were girls, too. But things got better. In total, she gave nativity to sixteen kids – although vi of them died equally children (the kid mortality was clearly real high fifty-fifty inward these real rich families). Her rootage births seemed dramatic together with painful together with then sixteen births for sure looks similar a full-time job. It's assort of incredible that she managed to give together with then many extraordinary reforms together with other things inward politics.

As Jiří Weigl, a cracking historian together with long-time aide to Czech ex-president Klaus, wrote inward an attempt (they published a whole booklet virtually Maria Theresa equally seen 300 years after her birth), she was conservative inward regulation but she understood what her epoch needed, too. Extraordinary women similar that are sometimes born. And Maria Theresa non solely achieved what she achieved without much affirmative action. She achieved those things inward a basis where women were – oftentimes rightfully – assumed to go only nativity automatons.



In this Czech edition of the Austrian-Hungarian anthem, Maria Theresa – who became, along amongst her Lorraine hubby Francis I, the founder of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty – appears at 0:26.

Update: In the 2nd episode, nosotros could encounter about tension inward the human relationship betwixt Maria Theresa together with her hubby – the relaxed Francis I who loved to report the materials of women's underwear. He also introduced about modern technologies to make clothes into Austria-Hungary. He may convey looked similar a lowly human being of affairs but he truly earned plenty coin that the Austrian Empire could pass upwards to its cease inward 1918.

Meanwhile, Maria Theresa faced invaders from Prussia equally good equally French Republic together with Bavaria that breached about agreements amongst Austria. (The Ottoman Empire wasn't a big work at that time; England was considered a potential ally but its assist wasn't equally good important.) An of import Hungarian aristocrat had a vanquish on her together with wanted to aid her if she has gender activity amongst him. She agreed to go a prostitute for an evening, inward gild to aid her honey empire. The Hungarian guy amongst a moustache realized that inward this way, he couldn't acquire erection, together with then canceled the plans. But she traveled to the Kingdom of Hungary. While crying together with showing her kid, equally a desperate woman bring upwards who was betrayed, she charmed both the of import aristocrat who had a vanquish on her equally good equally the residual of the Hungarian nobility. Despite the "more than usual" Hungarian opposition to woman somebody rulers, they crowned her the Hungarian queen inward Bratislava (now the working capital alphabetic quality of independent Slovakia; betwixt 1536 together with 1783, the working capital alphabetic quality of Republic of Hungary equally "Pressburg") inward 1741. Tens of thousands of Hungarian soldiers were all of a precipitous available for her together with she defended Republic of Austria against the attacks.

(She was also crowned the Czech queen ii years after the Hungarian one, inward 1743. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 competitor, Karel Albrecht of Bavaria, did crown himself a manlike somebody monarch of Bohemia inward Prague only a flake earlier. In 1743, she was already firmly inward accuse of things together with then the coronation inward Prague was a problem-free celebration.)