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Proof that historical detail can be cinematically compelling. You don't need a swordsman to wildly flail about to show anger, you don't need gigantic swords and acrobatics.

Moral of the story: The bard wins.

That double hit was pretty brutal. I think I wasn't supposed to root for the short-tempered friend but I was sad to see him die.

WOW. This goes beyond the Knight of Hope - this is a phenomenal period drama where every scene is like seeing a Dührer painting come to life. Phenomenal work - truly historically accurate swordsmanship and period drama ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

I am beyond hyped about this. Your Knight of Hope is my favourite fight scene and favourite short film ever.

Frankly Hollywood needs to step up to your level, guys. Your shows are amazingly well performed and produced :O

I came in expecting glorious historical martial arts, and I got that, but what I didn't expect was the gorgeous Shakespearean drama I was given as well. I'm shocked that a twelve minute story could make me feel these kinds of emotions. You guys are all in a league of your own, and I can't wait to see future projects !

I love how unapologetically glorious these videos are. They are defiantly well made because they don’t rely on cheap gimmicks like overly flashy acrobatics & combat or CGI effects, or Netflix’s budget (although Netflix did squander their budget on shitty costumes for the Witcher series).

wow what a way to tell a story of friendship, honor and betrayal. You have don it again.

This fight is so sad. The swings and stabs, the look on the eyes of a friend and someone who is lost in anger only to realise at death's door what has happened and the guilt that comes with it. I love it and thank you.

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This short film portrayed fencing as tragic and not glorious. The adrenaline rush pushed me into worry. However, the most heartbreaking moment was at the end of the duel. SPOILER: While grasping at each other, they embraced as friends again. IMHO, this level of objectivity toward our valued subject (swordfights!) is unequaled among HEMA/reenactment teams.

Wow, you reached a point were the duel is 'just' a natural part in an otherwise interesting story!

You guys understand that a good fight has a good story behind it but I wasn't expecting this level of story telling. This is outstanding! Respect to the Adorea Fight Team and Troy Horse Film!

I wonder why the Kings man provoked the short-tempered soldier, hadn't his reputation preceded him? And why would the King command his best friend to kill him? EXEMPLARY short film!

This and Akademia Szermierzy are two of the best channels out there when it comes to cinematic fighting. Hats off to you for producing such great, compelling short films. If only they'd give you the budget of a Hollywood movie, you'd make content 10x as good.

Excellent reconstruction of the duel. Around 6:45 the black hair guy got a serious thrust to the chest. He must have felt he was mortally wounded because his mouth was filled with blood. As an gallant duelist, he wanted to keep fighting to return the blow, despite the tragedy of the whole situation of the duel with the friend. In general, after being a pierced with a rapier in a duel, you tried to take your opponent with you, wanting at least to be considered a winner after the death (and you hoped that God would forgive you despite of all).

I felt more emotionally invested in your movie than any Netflix crap produced recently. And yeah, like others said, the fighting choreography is top notch, better than anything you can see in Hollywood!

The amount of storytelling in such a short span is remarkable! I felt more attached to these to characters than many other characters which I’ve spent hours with! And the fencing is so well executed, and choreographed.

Wow. I'm stunned. Everything fits so well together. The story, the music, the costumes, the choreography. A masterpiece for how short it is, but still manages to get me more emotional than a 2 hour Hollywood blockbuster. The story of friendship and honor even after betreyal. The fact that the actual fight scene wasn't like 20 Minutes long. But as long as someone would expect it to last between two friends. Bravo Adorea!

Not only you are excellent swordsmen, you are also very good actors! Nicely done! Greetings to Olomouc!

How, just how, do you put so much soul into these videos? When he said their lord chose him to be the weapon of vengeance, my heart plummeted. Bravo.

Duty or friendship, it is not always an easy choice, but as was said, "The honour must never be lost".

I always expect a twist in AO's videos, but this twist absolutely surprised me! You guys write such good stories, and produce videos with imagery that reflects the story perfectly. You're extremely talented, and I'm grateful you share these films!

First time a sword fight has brought a tear to my my eye splendid work look forward to what's next

I'm a historical reenactor and in my first steps in this activity I had the luck (and may I say the honour) to be trained by a good fencing master. Then I realized swords are maybe the first weapon designed especially against humans. They're not for hunting. And this realization brought a change in my choice of reenacting role. Many of the great people in reenactment choose warrior reconstruction and do it well (the men from Adorea being an eminent case of incredibly well-done work). For me, things went to the reconstruction of a priest. My first attempt was a late 13th century Franciscan friar. I slowly shifted to Late Antiquity, now trying to make my research for a Late 4th century Arian presbyter, learning the liturgy and some Greek, building the inventory. Warriors in pre-Modern and Early Modern societies had a relationship with priests, often a turbulent one but a relationship nonetheless. I'm just a man in love with history, not a real priest but I think it's in honour of these difficult human relations that we reenactors do what we do. And here I am, admiring the splendid work of Adorea and thinking of past voices silenced by swords. Thanks for another great short film! For this is not just a video, it's a film in its own right.

This was an amazing short film...the acting, emotion, choreography, but what really took it to another level, a much higher level, was the narration and the content of the letter from the father to his son. Bravo!

Hurry to see it brothers ! ⚔️

Your contents are really good and epic. As a historian, I love to see realistic fights, way better than the Hollywoodese ones.

Toss A Coin To Your Duelists !

Hey! I came here for a swordfight, not some cinematic masterpiece! Well done, ladies, gentlemen, and others.

Hyped hyped hyped. Y’all’s camerawork needs medals 🏅 🎖 🥇

This would have made an amazing feature-length movie.

More historical awesomeness can't wait

Вот на таком уровне должны были быть сняты дуэльные сцены в "Игре Престолов"

Still a couple of seconds, hope you’re all back to watch live.

It would be awesome if this could be turned into a television series. Maybe like a prequel that follows the meeting and building of friendship between the two main characters that explains why the friend chose to kill who I presume was a noblemen.

brilliant from start to finish: the costumes, the music, the atmosphere + characters, the skills involved + the story behind it all. fantastic! [el'sda2].

Some people from Hollywood should watch this...and envy and think and, most importantly, LEARN!

They died as friends, hugging each other.

This is truly epic, awesome sword fighting, very cinematic. I enjoyed this very much. Dope.

Hell of a job telling a great story in just 10 min! You had more character development and connection in a few min than most Hollywood films can in two hours..

I like the fact that there was no real victor in the duel

I must say I enjoyed this. Nice to see some authenticity and beautifully filmed. Hi from Northworthy!

"Honor Must Never Be Lost". Great as always!!!

Another one?! I just went back to watching your channel and saw this!! YES!!! CAN'T WAIT!!

I'm only ninety seconds in, and already the soundtrack is giving me goosebumps. Already a thumbs up.

These are literally the the coolest guys in the world! Every video I’ve seen them do on their channel is absolutely amazing! (GOOD JOB)👍

Awesome. Simply that.

félicitation! Ce n'est pas en France que l'on verrais ce genre de film à la gloire de l'honneur et de la famille! Soyez béni!

Glorious

Almost like modern day politics in which the peoples of two nations are played against one another by those in power.

Estupenda historia, y gran combate. Felicidades por el resultado.

10/10. Such a crafted masterpiece of cinematography.

As usual, fantastatic job !!!! After Knight of Hope, this movie is amazing. Story, Fight, Suit... Follow this way !!!

Wow, kluci z Adorea jste super 👍bravo 👏 klobouk dolů.

These are some of my favorite things to watch. I wish all historical movies and shows had to use these guys as consultants.

This was way better than any swordplay that I’ve seen in recent television or online streaming. The story was compelling and the cinematography was outstanding. The violinist just added a layer of artistic yet completely realistic and historically accurate magic to the scene. 10/10!

This was fantastic! My only minor criticism is that the filming did not allow the audience to see some of the action. I had to watch the sequence around 7.18 about 3 times before I worked out what really happened (as an old sport fencer and historical european swordsmanship fan): the two rapiers go corp a corp, but one guy still has the parrying dagger. He can't reach his opponents body but can thrust the dagger into his opponents sword hand. A fight ender.... But then he has already suffered a fatal thrust. He still needs to win the duel though for his son, his family and the future generations. Great stuff!

Wow... this was brutal.

i feel every one of these. so much passion. i cry every time they release something.

Tak to mělo opravdu skvělou atmosféru. Je to úžasný. Jako vždy skvělá práce Adoreo!

Can't get enough of your work gentlemen. Rewatched this one numerous times

I shall wait expectingly.

Duty makes all things simple.

Kudos to the fiddler for just standing there.

This just gets better and better.

Awesome work! I so appreciate these short films!

Very nice. Good storytelling in the forefront. Very good staged combat with very nice martial techniques, As a Swedish Czech living in New Zealand I hopefully will meet and possibly train with you at some point. Hollywood should come and learn from you and the ones that does this work. Well done.

Very nice !! Congratulations at all the team !!

Fenomenální, je úžasné kam jste se za dobu existence vašeho spolku posunuli, zpracování i historická přesnost zahanbí kdejaký velkofilm :)

Wonderful. Greetings from Germany.

One person has disliked this. GET HIM!

No opět nádhera - není co dodat. Tleskám vám, přátelé.

I have never had an action sequence bring me to tears before now. Just wonderful

Moral of the history: Always be the violinist (He gets coin from every side :P) Jokes aside, that's an unbelievably good work. Congratulations.

What is so awesome about this is that this kind of stuff went on throughout medieval history. We always read about the Kings and the Grand Dukes. But what about the lower noblemen? The men who didn't make it into the history books? Those men lived like these men and this was very much a way of life for them.

This is truly phenomenal guys. It even fixes the only petpeeve I had with knight of hope - there is much less shaky cam, it makes it really good to look at. What a masterpiece

Wonderful. I applaud you. Absolutely powerful and in such a short story telling. Thank you!

truly amazing stuff. Whenever I want to show people what realistic combat might have actually looked like I show them your programs. Well done in every respect.

Absolutely phenomenal! I was very invested and I salute 🎉 Well done, Bravo!

BRAVO !!! Excellent acting ,costumes and top notch fight scenes. Honor, Courage and Family sadly are lacking in our world of greed and self-worship today...

Phenomenal quality

Short but powerful and really well done . Awesome work . Congratulations to the team . Peace from France ; )

Well done! thank you very much !

Děkuji, bylo to krásné, ukápla i slzička.

Ma g decided to play a banger before starting, respect

Opět skvělé chlapy.

Even the choreo is just a part of storytelling. Bravo Adorea!

Brilliantly filmed and performed and criminally underwatched!

thanks a lot for your videos... may the good things be with you

Konečně někdo kdo sklidil slávu a nepřestal mluvit česky 😃👍

Another incoming wonder !! So hyped!

I´m completely amazed by this film. It´s astonishing how rich and colourfull one can create deep characters for which the audience cares in mere 12 minutes. How many 2 hour, high budget productions can compete with this?

Absolutely beautiful.

I couldn't even choose for who I was rooting for 😭😭😭

Such a marvelous work, thank you guys for this piece of art! Love from Italy

Epic as always!

Outstanding production!