Blackadder

(1983)

★ 8 IMDb · 570 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1983

Runtime: 32 мин

Country: United Kingdom, Australia

Director: Ричард Кёртис, Роуэн Аткинсон, Ben Elton

Cast: Роуэн Аткинсон, Tony Robinson, Хью Лори, Тим Макиннерни, Стивен Фрай

Plot

Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.

Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. In fact, Henry VII did not actually win the battle of Bosworth Field; he lost and though Richard III died in the battle, his nephew King Richard IV (who certainly was not smothered while still a boy in the Tower of London) reigned on for some years. The story focuses on Richard IV's younger son Prince Edmund, a sniveling coward who calls himself the 'Black Adder'. Assisted by his grungy servant and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness.