Castle of Otranto

00:00:01 Jiri Trnka's Studio Prague

00:00:50 Artistic Studio Director

00:01:12 becomes too big to inhabit it.

00:01:36 written by Horace Walpole.

00:02:04 I set out to uncover exactly that.

00:02:29 For example, the large hall at the end of the corridor on the right

00:02:56 It is a somewhat improved garrison.

00:03:26 It showed typical Czech countryside with a romantic and beautiful ruin.

00:03:53 Otrhansky - Otrantsky

00:04:51 Conrad! My only son, my only heir.

00:05:27 Yes! I need a new heir, come what may.

00:07:02 By then I was fully convinced the plot had taken place right here.

00:07:35 the Czech army's campaign alongside Heinrich IV

00:08:07 found its way as a literary topic

00:09:31 This here was quite likely the cavern

00:10:27 Never!

00:12:28 I was of the same opinion at the outset of my research.

00:12:54 The chemical analysis irrefutably confirmed it was horn tissue.

00:14:05 Theodore hides in the woods, living off animals.

00:14:56 produced a microscopic metal fragment

00:15:20 We are more concerned with the prophecy being thus fulfilled.

00:16:05 to Otrhany Castle near Náchod sounds very convincing.

00:16:31 And as for the microscopic metal fragments on the walls