Jonák, Mrázek and murder on every corner. The 1990s series recalls the flip side of the new democracy<

/ REVIEWS / For the period of the early 1990s, we tend to watch with a significant dose of nostalgia. Absurd clothes, a long line at the newly opened McDonald's in Vodičkova Street in Prague and the first sips of the two-liter Coca-Cola may overshadow the fact that not only freedom, open borders, Western culture and the first gains of capitalist consumption came after the Velvet Revolution.

In Czechoslovakia and later in the independent Czech Republic, a large number of mafia individuals emerged, who literally went over the corpses for money. It is this fact that has become the main theme of the series The Nineties, which seems to have hit audience expectations directly on the chamber.

Forensic screenwriter

Former criminal investigator Josef Mareš postponed his police ID, but he certainly did not postpone the forced leave. On the contrary, he returns to his new profession as a screenwriter, where he tries to recall his career and experience in investigating murders at a time when they were blessed in our territory.

The Czech Television of the Nineties series is based on the most visible characters in the Czech underworld, and after the feature films The Godfather, The Velvet Assassins and Gangster Ka, an ambitious project comes that puts them in the context of a time when money played a major role. After years in the socialist regime, opportunities came that Mrázek, Jonák, Běla and many others tried to take advantage of at all costs.

Guides to the world of the Prague mafia are detectives from the homicide department, where the main role is played by the acting friends of Šumperk, Martin Finger, and the popular Ondřej Sokol. In the coat of ninety fashion, he tries to orientate himself and find the perpetrators of murders, the number of which grows like mushrooms after the rain.

Poor Jonák

Naturally, the screenwriters focus on today's cult characters, such as František Mrázek, and in the first two episodes, mainly Ivan Jonák. The character of the mobster, who built his unmissed home in the legendary Discoland Sylvia, is by its nature so attractive that it could not be neglected.

The actor Michal Novotný took on this grateful role and the internet is already full of articles that reveal his transformation into an eccentric boss who ordered the murder of his own wife, but at the same time liked to take photos in the company of Karel Gott and Lucie Bílá. The character of Ivan Jonák himself is, in fact, such a lodge of the underworld of the 1990s, who most loudly pours out of his potential what this wild time offered.

Erotica, alcohol, crocodile behavior and hairstyle in the style of business front and back party. All this belongs to the portfolio of a man who eventually served behind bars for his actions. Fortunately, the series The Nineties not only serves to exhibit the bizarre, but also tries to gradually map the entire criminal scene and place the mobsters and their commissioned murders in a contemporary context.

If we add to this a very narrative and faithfully crafted scenography full of corresponding props, types of cars and, of course, an endless number of costumes, which are now full of second-handers, a fun spectacle is created, which of course also has an educational layer. The viewer gets a much-needed overview of a time that was not without flaws. The fall of the Iron Curtain is thus, after a long time, reflected in the public media also from an unpleasant point of view. The 1990s were really not just full of euphoria and new opportunities, which is sometimes forgotten in a flood of bizarre and nostalgia.

Source: Czech Television

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