The Pagan Queen


The Pagan Queen is a 2009 historical drama film directed by German director Constantin Werner. The film combines realism with fantasy elements and is based on the legend of Libue, the Czech tribal queen of 8th century Bohemia who envisioned the city of Prague and founded the first Czech dynasty with a farmer called Pemysl, the Ploughman.

During her reign Libuse envisions the city of Prague at the Vltava river, starts mining in the rich Bohemian mountains and helps her farmers to fight a deadly plague. She also starts a secret affair with the charismatic ploughman Pemysl Csaba Lucas.When the peaceful community of farmers is under attack by raiders and split into different parties of power hungry landowners under the guidance of their plotting chieftains Domaslav Pavel Krz and Vrsovec Marek Vaut, Libue is eventually forced into marriage by her own people. Desperate she elects Pemysl to become her husband and king. Soon Pemysl takes over the new kingdom and rules with an iron fist, enslaving the formerly free farmers. ........

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