The Legend of Till

The film was adapted from the novel by Charles de Coster. The events take place in Flanders in the sixteenth century. The country is under the rule of the king of Spain. The first part is called The Ashes of Claes. The people are cheerful and fond of their freedom. A heavy weight lies on them, though. The fires of the Inquisition, torture and persecution go on. Thyl Ulenspiegel is a man without fear. Nele, the woman he loves, is beside him. The two of them pass through many trials. The second part is called Long Live the Beggars. By now the people have risen. Taxes, royal decrees and executions swelled the revolt. A war of liberation against Spanish rule begins. Thyl and his friend Lamme Goedzak are inside that war. Lembit Ulfsak and Natalya Belokhvostikova appear in the three hundred and eleven minute film, a Soviet production Vladimir Naumov and Aleksandr Alov finished in 1977.