Zdivočelá země

The Land Gone Wild is a Czech adventure historical television series. It was produced by Czech Television and filmed in four seasons in 1997, 2001, 2007 and 2012. Story is based on Jiří Stránský's novels Zdivočelá země and Aukce. Plot The series takes place in Communist Czechoslovakia. Story starts in first weeks after the end of the World War II and ends in 1990. It tells story of a fictional character – former Czechoslovak pilot on Western front Antonín Madera and describes real events in post-war Czechoslovakia. Season 1 Lieutenant Colonel Madera, a war hero who served on Western Front, returns to his native village Svatý Štěpán in Ore Mountains borderland, where the majority of the series takes place. He wants to fulfill his dream to breed horses. The chairman of local MNV Brabenec gives him a decree of the national administrator for the estate that used to belong Germanized Kučera's family. Together with ex-policeman Martin Kanda and seven boys ("cowboys") who settled on the farm with him, he must fight German Nazis and their Czech minions, who are trying to take away the Gestapo archive hidden in the basement of the farm. Among the Nazis is Karel Kučera, the son of the family that once owned the farm where Maděra and his friends have settled. Kučera raids the farm and severely injures Maděra's fiancee Ilona before Maděra shoots him dead. Maděra then has to deal with cattle poachers, extreme drought of 1947 and with officials from the District Agricultural Administration who have a personal interest in liquidation of Maděra's Grazing Cooperative.