Die Puppenspieler

Overview

Helpless, the young convent student Richard has to watch as his mother Sarazenin Zobeida is condemned by the inquisitor Heinrich Institoris as a witch and burned at the stake. From then on, Richard swears revenge on Institoris for what he did to his family. He can escape and is taken by the merchant Jakob Fugger. He wants to teach him not only to seek blind revenge, but to manipulate people like puppets and thus to reach his goals. The two travel from Florence to Rome to influence the upcoming election of the pope and to witness the power struggle between the Medicis and the Borgias up close.

Cast

Samuel Schneider

Richard

Herbert Knaup

Jakob Fugger

Sascha Alexander Geršak

Eberding

Ulrich Matthes

Kardinal Borgia

Edin Hasanović

Cesare Borgia

Philipp Moog

Heinrich Institoris

Rainer Bock

Kardinal della Rovere

Leonard Carow

Battista Nardini

N/A

Jan Messutat

Kardinal Sforza

Bernhard Schütz

Abt Torrani

N/A

Karel Polišenský

Papst Innozenz VIII.

Petr Halíček

Lorenzo di Medici