The Silversmith (În umbra lui Shakespeare)
The Silversmith a historical feature film from Transylvania. In early XVII century, A talented young silversmith (Johannes Banfi Hunyades) from the Transylvanian city of Baia Mare, immersed himself in "alchemical" studies 400 years ago and came into conflict with the most powerful man in the area. In a parallel act in the present time, an entrepreneur from Baia Mare is investigating after he accidentally found the unknown alchemist in his hometown. Nowdays, a furniture dealer from the same city, Walter Übelhart, has decided to take a shorter career to kick. To compensate, he deals with the history of his homeland. A man who seems to have been waiting for him speaks to his parents' grave. He presents the photo of a coin that shows all of Walters previous research overthrows. The symbols on the coin suggest that it is 400 years previously gave forerunners of Masonic orders in Baia Mare - in the Mining Fraternities in the Region.
Agatha, the daughter of the rich gold mining tenant Georg Lissibona, asks Johannes to help her in love matters. A drug from his laboratory is said to be for a while make them appear dead so that they can face a young man from a hostile family (Herbetstein) can flee her father. It ends with the real death of Agatha by the Father's dagger after walking through the house like a risen dead woman, a "strigoi" is wrong. The Silversmith a historical feature film from Transylvania. In early XVII century, A talented young silversmith (Johannes Banfi Hunyades) from the Transylvanian city of Baia Mare, immersed himself in "alchemical" studies 400 years ago and came into conflict with the most powerful man in the area. In a parallel act in the present time, an entrepreneur from Baia Mare is investigating after he accidentally found the unknown alchemist in his hometown. Nowdays, a furniture dealer from the same city, Walter Übelhart, has decided to take a shorter career to kick. To compensate, he deals with the history of his homeland. A man who seems to have been waiting for him speaks to his parents' grave. He presents the photo of a coin that shows all of Walters previous research overthrows. The symbols on the coin suggest that it is 400 years previously gave forerunners of Masonic orders in Baia Mare - in the Mining Fraternities in the Region.
Johannes travels through Europe to share his knowledge with people from other countries, exchange works at the court of the alchemist emperor Rudolph II in Prague. In Germany, he was a co-founder of the Rosicrucian movement, the forerunner of the later Freemasonry in England. When he arrived in London, he joined the Rosicrucian circle around William Shakespeare. In the group around Shakespeare, he processes his experiences with Agatha and their tragic love in a stage play. He's knowledge and contacts make him a sought-after scholar of his time; he becomes friends with Arthur Dee and Francis Bacon. Later he was promoted to teach at Gresham College, marries one from Kent the high nobility of England. Walter often cannot explain can do what he is experiencing. He find more and more motifs and stories from Shakespeare's dramas on stories of Romanian traditions.The entrepreneur intensifies his investigations and gets help. He's friend Paul, a private investigator, is quickly on board, encounters a parapsychologist who opened a new dimension in his studies: hundreds of years apart removed, would actually be very close to each other. The abundance of similar characters and names, even of similarities of entire narrative strands are overwhelming.The language of the film does not have any lurid effects. It unfolds hers effect through the parallelism of events that are unstoppable from the past to influence the present. The protagonist in the story before 400 years is Johannes Banfi Hunyades. The protagonist in the present time is Walter Übelhart - and with the same name with the screenwriter.
