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The Black Barons

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The Black Barons	label	The Black Barons
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The Black Barons	comment	The Black Barons (ÄŒernÃ baroni in Czech) is a 1992 Czechoslovak comedy film by ZdenÄ›k SirovÃ½, starring Pavel LandovskÃ½, OndÅ™ej VetchÃ½, Miroslav Donutil and others.It takes place in 1950s Communist Czechoslovakia and portrays the mandatory military service of members of a Technical auxiliary battalion (a weaponless unit of the Czechoslovak military composed of class enemies of the regime), and the daily struggles of the privates with their mean and incompetent officers.It is a film version of a 1969 book of the same name by Miloslav Å vandrlÃk.
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The Black Barons / int_16ddefda	type	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
The Black Barons / int_16ddefda	comment	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Senior Lieutenant Mazurek gets utterly drunk one evening, pawning his pistol to the innkeeper. He forgets doing so by the time he gets sober, thinks the privates stole the gun and makes a big fuss out of the thing, searching their barracks frantically and threatening the privates with an investigation by counterintelligence officers. When the innkeeper visits the barracks with the gun to demand his payment, Mazurek ends up so humiliated he shoots himself out of shame moments later.
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The Black Barons / int_21b5c767	type	Terse Talker
The Black Barons / int_21b5c767	comment	Terse Talker: Captain OÅ™ech, though in his example, it's not through him using fewer words than others, but through his thick Ostravian accent having him only speak with short syllables.
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The Black Barons / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
The Black Barons / int_24ae6005	comment	The Political Officer: The unit has two of them - Captain OÅ™ech and Lieutenant TronÃk. Both of them are complete idiots who turn out to not even know basic Marxist realia when examined by the inspecting General.
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The Black Barons / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Black Barons / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: most of the officers have one. Major HaluÅ¡ka loves talking about how something was once some way but now it's different with the use of the word "terazky", meaning "now". Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek keeps including questions in his speech which he immediately answers himself. Lieutenant TronÃk keeps giving everyone so called control questions. Senior Lieutenant Mazurek keeps repeatedly saying that "order is the most important thing".
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The Black Barons / int_29ba150c	type	Inane Blabbering
The Black Barons / int_29ba150c	comment	Inane Blabbering: Major HaluÅ¡ka descends into this when giving a report to the General on his surprise inspection, first mistakenly calling him comrade minister, then Herr, then noble sir and then switching to Russian before apologising for being confused and finally resuming to giving the proper report in normal Slovak.
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The Black Barons / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
The Black Barons / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: The privates sing It's a Long Way to Tipperary in English on the eve they buy alcohol from the innkeeper.
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The Black Barons / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Black Barons / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: During the Bar Brawl, one guy ends up getting thrown out of the window, through which some of the privates proceed to escape the MP.
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The Black Barons / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Black Barons / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: While Mazurek is seen loading his gun after making a complete clown of himself, we don't see his suicide, only hear a gunshot from outside.
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The Black Barons / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Black Barons / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: JasÃ¡nek, the genuine Communist of the privates, ends up in a bunch of humiliating situations throughout the film.
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The Black Barons / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Black Barons / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Private HalÃk, after HamÃ¡Ä�ek scolds him that his night trainings of the privates will cost the officers bonuses due to the low productivity of the unit, goes to the pub and gets completely drunk in frustration.
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The Black Barons / int_52856092	type	Backing Away Slowly
The Black Barons / int_52856092	comment	Backing Away Slowly: One of the times the General says he wants to throw up, Terazky takes a step away from the General in response.
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The Black Barons / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
The Black Barons / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek is a thin and tall officer with a very low view of the soldiers he is commanding.
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The Black Barons / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Black Barons / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek's fate after the General's inspection. Terazky threatens Lieutenant TronÃk and Senior Lieutenant Mazurek with the same when reprimanding them over the mess in the barracks.
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The Black Barons / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Black Barons / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: The General throws a few great ones during his inspection when he uncovers the general dismay within the battalion and the incompetence of the officers. One of the death glares manages to get private Laco to faint.
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The Black Barons / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Black Barons / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: HalÃk, to the degree it ends up irritating not only the privates, but Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek as well because his training causes the privates' productivity to drop.
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The Black Barons / int_673c9dd8	type	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
The Black Barons / int_673c9dd8	comment	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: Senior Lieutenant Mazurek does one to himself before his suicide after he gets humiliated in front of the entire unit with the pistol debacle.
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The Black Barons / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Black Barons / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Senior Lieutenant Mazurek shoots himself after the complete humiliation he suffers in front of the entire unit.
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The Black Barons / int_701cb9a5	type	Sex at Work
The Black Barons / int_701cb9a5	comment	Sex at Work: JasÃ¡nek is talked into having one at the quarry, but he ends up not having it due to him and the girl falling through the walls of the wooden shack they're hiding in when the girl stumbles while unbuttoning his shirt.
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The Black Barons / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Black Barons / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: One happens halfway through the film between regular soldiers and the technical auxiliary batallion after VoÅˆavka insults one soldier's girlfriend when she refuses his dance request.
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The Black Barons / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
The Black Barons / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: One of the privates tries to hang himself after his girlfriend dumps him via a letter. The branch of the tree he wants to hang himself on snaps, alerting KefalÃn and allowing him to talk the guy out of suicidial thoughts.
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The Black Barons / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Black Barons / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Major HaluÅ¡ka is called Terazky (meaning "now") due to his love of using that word. Even the closing credits call him "Major HaluÅ¡ka-Terazky".
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The Black Barons / int_853e5786	type	Repeated for Emphasis
The Black Barons / int_853e5786	comment	Repeated for Emphasis: Done by Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek during his scolding of HalÃk.
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The Black Barons / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Black Barons / int_890d4ef2	comment	When Terazky sees the General arriving at the barracks, he nearly faints and crosses himself. The subsequent Humiliation Conga of an inspection the offficers suffer make that a very justified reaction.
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The Black Barons / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
The Black Barons / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek is less concerned about the Communist ideology and more concerned about the money he makes when sending his unit to work as cheap labour at a quarry. When HalÃk's training causes the unit's productivity to drop, HamÃ¡Ä�ek scolds him that the trainings are threatening the bonuses he'd make.
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The Black Barons / int_94ae369f	type	Calling Your Nausea
The Black Barons / int_94ae369f	comment	Calling Your Nausea: The inspecting General says a few times that he wants to throw up when seeing the massive incompetence rampant in the batallion. When Major HaluÅ¡ka offers the disgusted General pork sausages, he throws up for real.
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The Black Barons / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
The Black Barons / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: Lieutenant TronÃk speaks with a very pronounced lisp.
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The Black Barons / int_a3cdf764	type	Drinking on Duty
The Black Barons / int_a3cdf764	comment	Drinking on Duty: After HamÃ¡Ä�ek scolds him due to his training lowering the productivity, HalÃk gets absolutely smashed in the local pub. The privates use that, planting the drunk HalÃk in front of HamÃ¡Ä�ek's office, getting him fired for the drinking. The privates, when they celebrate HamÃ¡Ä�ek getting Reassigned to Antarctica.
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The Black Barons / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
The Black Barons / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: When Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek informs the group that he ended up getting Reassigned to Antarctica, the privates proceed to celebrate, popping a bottle of champagne.
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The Black Barons / int_a8735eb8	type	Commie Land
The Black Barons / int_a8735eb8	comment	Commieland: The film is set in 1950s Czechoslovakia, the times of the harshest Communist reign in the country. The opening news montage very quickly establishes the atmosphere.
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The Black Barons / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Black Barons / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Terazky sees the General arriving at the barracks, he nearly faints and crosses himself. The subsequent Humiliation Conga of an inspection the offficers suffer make that a very justified reaction. Mazurek has a moment of this when he realises his gun is missing.
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The Black Barons / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Black Barons / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: When common private Nalezenec asks HamÃ¡Ä�ek for a Christmas leave, HamÃ¡Ä�ek rebuffs him. When private Å ternberk, who is of aristocratic origin, asks for a Christmas leave as well, he not only ends up getting the leave, but HamÃ¡Ä�ek grants him a much longer leave than Å ternberk initially asked for.
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The Black Barons / int_b9922ce5	type	Literal Ass-Kicking
The Black Barons / int_b9922ce5	comment	Literal Ass-Kicking: Lieutenant TronÃk is given a kick in the ass while he reprimands the privates for Drinking on Duty. He rushes to tell Senior Lieutenant Mazurek and demands exemplary punishment. Senior Lieutenant Mazurek does not particularly care and only resolves the situation after TronÃk (who holds a lower rank) orders him to resolve it. Major HaluÅ¡ka is very unimpressed by the incident when it gets to him.
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The Black Barons / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Black Barons / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Dr. HoÅ™ec is mentioned to send every patient who calls him "comrade" back to his unit immediately.
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The Black Barons / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Black Barons / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: While none of the officers have high opinion of the privates, Lieutenant HamÃ¡Ä�ek stands out at treating them like disposable dirt. When JasÃ¡anek injures himself while working at the quarry, he refuses him getting medical aid and instead orders him to wash himself and resume working. When KefalÃn says that they were concerned about a human's life, HamÃ¡Ä�ek rebuffs him saying that there's too many people on Earth anyway. It's no wonder the privates celebrate when the Lieutenant ends up Reassigned to Antarctica.
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The Black Barons / int_bea84606	type	Pain to the Ass
The Black Barons / int_bea84606	comment	Pain to the Ass: After JasÃ¡nek tries to talk his way out of getting an injection, excusing himself as having weak breasts, the doctors react by having the injection applied to JasÃ¡nek's butt.
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The Black Barons / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
The Black Barons / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Terazky's justification for Jan Å½iÅ¾ka to be drawn with a light machine gun which did not exist in 15th Century is that he was not a Major in 15th Century either but is one today.
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The Black Barons / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
The Black Barons / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Dr. MachÃ¡Ä�ek is assigned to take care of pigs, because Captain OÅ™ech assumes he's a veterinarian. It later turns out he has a doctorate in law and has no idea how to take care of pigs.
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The Black Barons / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
The Black Barons / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: The regular army and the technical auxiliary batallion hate each other and they end quickly end up brawling when they both meet in the same pub.
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The Black Barons / int_dae815bb	type	A Glass in the Hand
The Black Barons / int_dae815bb	comment	A Glass in the Hand: While examining the officers from Marxism and history, the General is holding a pencil. When TronÃk spectacularly botches his answer to the question about the beginning of the beginning of the October Revoultion, the general snaps the pencil in half.
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The Black Barons / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Black Barons / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: When Terazky asks peeing MachÃ¡Ä�ek what is he doing, he discloses his medical diagnosis, full of complicated and Latin terms of which the Major does not understand a word.
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The Black Barons / int_f5b7b990	type	Verbal Backspace
The Black Barons / int_f5b7b990	comment	Verbal Backspace: Major HaluÅ¡ka mentions to KefalÃn that during World War II, he was fighting the Bolsheviks - only to quickly realise what he said and correct himself to say that he was fighting the Fascists.
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The Black Barons / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Black Barons / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Terazky notices a mural of Jan Å½iÅ¾ka being painted with a mace, he demands it changed to a light machine gun, and brushes off a point that there were no light machine guns in 15th Century. Later on in the film, the General notices the mural of Jan Å½iÅ¾ka with the light machine gun, and orders the machine gun repainted, saying that every idiot knows that there were no machine guns in 15th Century.
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