Martinelli is currently working on post-production, with cinematic distribution scheduled for October.Those countries not showing the film in cinemas will be able to screen the production in the format of a five-part television mini-series. Scenes for the production were shot at various Polish locations, including the historic residences of Wilanow, Baranow Sandomierski and Lancut. When he departed on 15 August, he left his nation undefended, warning the prince of Upper Hungary that destruction would await him if he dared take advantage of the situation. In Poland, John III Sobieski prepared to honour his obligations to the Warsaw treaty. “In my opinion, I think that this film could change people’s perceptions of Poland, by showing that it had the best cavalry in the world and saved Europe,” Martinelli said in an interview with the Polish edition of Newsweek magazine. On 14 July 1683, the main Ottoman army laid siege to Vienna. Murray Abraham, famed for playing Mozart’s nemesis Salieri in Milos Foreman’s Amadeus, plays the central role of Marco d’Aviano, a Capuchin friar who was an advisor at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I in Vienna. The Battle of Vienna (1683): The History and Legacy of the Decisive Conflict between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and Holy Roman Empire. The role of the Polish monarch was taken by director and occasional actor Jerzy Skolimowski (Essential Killing, dir.), who was joined by other Polish thespians including Piotr Adamczyk, Alicja Bachleda-Curus and Daniel Olbrychski.į. In the December of 1683, Kara Mustafa Pasha was executed in Belgrade. The walls of Vienna were ordered to be immediately repaired in case of another siege. Some 10,000 extras and 3000 horses were used in Italian film-maker Renzo Martinelli’s epic about the Siege of Vienna, a turning-point in European history in which Polish King Jan III Sobieski helped repulse the Ottoman army from the gates of Vienna. This battle was one of the most disastrous ones in the history of the Ottoman empire, making them lose about 15,000 men and get another 5,000 captured. King Jan Sobieski to conquer screens, The News, June 22, 2012Ī lavish international production portraying a Polish king’s historic victory at Vienna in 1683 will be shown in cinemas in 50 countries across the world, its director has revealed. The emphasis is on Polish pride and history, not the heroic smackdown of invasive Islam. This day is also the day the Ottoman’s leader Kara Mustafa sent a demand for surrender to the city. This is the official trailer of the film.Īn English-language publication from Poland cleverly sidestepped the clash-of-civilizations angle by not mentioning that the defeat of the Ottoman army at Vienna prevented a Muslim takeover of Europe - as Charles Martel similarly saved western civilization at the Battle of Tours in 732. On the 14th of July 1683, the Ottomans laid siege on Vienna. In Poland and beyond, there seems to be increasing interest in a new movie, Battle of Vienna, that will open in a few days about King Jan Sobieski’s successful defense of Vienna from the Ottomans in 1683.īelow, an image from the film showing the Polish king leading his cavalry, the winged hussars.
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