Witness Of a Dying Era

The film director Luther made a five-sequel historical series called The Doctor of a Dying Era for Czechoslovak television in Bratislava in 1983. Seven years later, editing the original 16mm material and copying it into a standard size resulted in the present historical film with a slightly changed title. The episodes are called: 1. Doctor Vitenbergicus, 2. Anatomia Pragensis, 3. Stellis vinctus, 4. Theatrum mundis, 5. Via Doloris. In the credits, the cast also includes the actor Ilja Racek (as the theologian Tilemann Heshusius), but his role from the first episode of the series did not make it into the final cut of the film.