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The army of the Ottoman Empire in full expansion was defeated by Iancu of Hunedoara in Belgrade.

Three days later the hero dies of plague in front of the freed citadel.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mahomed II the Conqueror of Constantinople

prepares to give Europe the deadly strike.

Weakened by the fights for the throne among the successors of Mircea the Old

and by the feudal anarchy of the great boyars, Valachia seemed an easy prey for the conqueror.

Who are you?

We are mosneni (free countrymen) from near Targoviste.

We are going to Iancu de Hunedoara.

We want him to take us into his army.

I will lead you to Iancu's Captain.

He should decide.

Iancu de Hundoara is dead.

And with him died the promised help.

I don't wait for anything from anyone.

The circumstances are favourable though

The king and the sultan don't have time for Valachia now.

I have been following you faithfully, since you were a child.

Command me.

Go into villages, tell them the time has come

for them to gather near the border of Valachia.

Only those should come for whom liberty is more precious than life.

Judging the riots of the last winter

I could gather the whole Transylvania.

3000 Romanians are enough.

Death to Draculea!

Long live Your Highness!

Who killed him?

Me, Your Highness.

Did you have an arrangement?

I did it by myself.

I smotthed your way to the throne.

Bury him with the honours due to a lord.

And he should perish by the spear he has killed with.

Why, Your Highness?

If I haven't done it, you would.

: I haven't sworn to be faithful to him.

Untie them.

Aren't you shouting?

I will shout. The wondering cranes are fighting for the throne

and the country goes down.

As a successor of great Mircea you should know that.

Give him his sword.

You have carried it with honor.

Let us swear to be faithful to His Highness.

Tell me boyars

How many lords have sat on this throne

since my grandfather Mircea died?

Six.

Seven, eight.

More, Your Highness.

Ten.

Not even you know how many.

You have urged the ones against the others.

You have impelled them to look abroad for help.

Us, Mircea Voievod lord of the whole Ungro-Valachia country

of the territories over the mountains

of the Tartar territories

and prince of Amlas and Fagaras

lord of Banat in Severin

and on both sides of the Danube up to the big sea

and sole lord of Dirstor Citadel...

what happened to his inheritance?

Where are the territories over the mountains?

Where are the Amlas and Fagaras?

Where is the big sea?

Not even 50 years have passed since then

the lords are vassals to the King of Hungary

and tributaries to Mahomed.

Servant for two masters

this is what this country has become as a consequence

of your crazy discords

Your Highness came to the country

to kill the Lord and replace him

The country is a shadow of what it used to be.

When I crossed the muntains I did not come against a country

but against a shadow.

I came not to kill a Lord but the shadow of a shadow.

The Lords were helpless.

You have ruled afer Mircea's death.

You have changed the Lords.

They did not know to hew you in time.

I won't judge you now.

Too many heads would fall.

I am asking you one thing.

You have brought the country where it is now

You take it where it should be.

Let us take it, You Highness.

What is your command?

Open the prison gates.

Those who were sentenced to death regain their life.

Those who were imprisoned regain their freedom.

Everybody's mistakes should be forgiven

Whatever they are.

From now on, all kind of robberies

rapes, lies, treachery

will be punished severely

To forgive, Your Highness, is good when taking the throne

but afterwards wouldn't you be to harsh?

Harsh?

Why harsh?

All souls should now what I am asking.

And what is waiting for them.

Each man should be his own judge.

To decide for himself if he stays or leave this world.

And as he decides, so be it.

What could be more right than this?

You are right. This is fair.

And what else do you command, Your Highness?

A new administration: armasia to apply the princely orders.

What else?

Enough for today.

Very good, Your Highness.

Let it be as you wish.

Who will have the honour to be the armash?

You.

What should he watch over?

Dregatorii (the administration) and the country's council

are watching over everything.

It's not them who are in Your Highness's hands,

Your Highness is in their hands.

Nobody should be watching over them?

Over dregatori? Over the Sfat (council)?

I don't want to see the country trough their eyes.

But to know it as it is.

I only have two hands, two eyes and I would need a thousand.

A thousand of good eyes are hard to gather.

Take 300 of the horsemen I came with

Gather all reliable men you know.

Spread them over the bourgs, fairs, villages and roads.

Nothing should happen in the country without me knowing about it.

The boyars won't want them on their estates.

They can raise their flags and stand against me.

What would I face them with?

With the princely army.

The princely army is made up of boyar's men.

There is no other princely army.

Haven't you seen it with your eyes?

Haven't you had a rope around your neck?

Do you think I came here to play the prince?

I gave you a sword. Handle it.

But be aware, it has 2 blades.

If you are a good man, don't be afraid.

If you're not, your head will fall first.

Too many strange things in one day.

But one has put an end to everything.

We have gone to the battle with a prince and we returned with another

who nobody wanted.

Hardly had he sat on the throne when he started to make bad decisions.

He is like the foal harnessed for the first time

kicking and neighing.

This will last for a little while

but he will get used to the harnass, the carriage and the coachmen.

Highway robbery.

They have stolen a few bales.

What did the guards do?

We should have doubled the guards.

Here all roads are insecure.

Bloody country!

We have been looking for you for an hour.

You taught me when I was a child to get out at the dawn.

To see how life and country awake.

Alone without guards, without telling no one?

What did you want me to do if this is the Lord's order?

Wasn't I supposed to obey?

Where are the councellors?

They come at noon, Your Highness. This is the custom.

The custom? Take the palace guards and go get them.

Three German merchants from Brasov want to see Your Highness.

They are waitig in the Chancellery.

Are you a merchant or a captain?

The roads are insecure, Your Highness.

Haunted by all kind of dawdlers.

They beg during the day and steal at night.

Last night they killed a servant and stole Turkish fabric and expensive cloths.

Four packs, Your Highness.

Ransack in Targoviste and its surroundings.

Get the robbers.

You will get back all that has been taken from you.

You will bring to the merchants of Brasov a letter to stenghten the privileges.

So that you can pass through Valachia without problems.

Towards the bourgs along the Danube.

The same for our merchants towards Brasov or other places.

This country has to grow in one year as in 10

in order to be like other countries.

And you come at noon?

First your pate and then the rest?

It is not your country, boyars. You belong to this country.

And me as well, I belong to this country.

They say Ladislau of Hungary, not Hungary of Ladislau

Kazimir of Poland, not Poland of Kazimir.

If it weren't this way, the countries would perish with their lords

and their boyars.

What happened, Your Highness?

Nothing happened.

This is a normal working day.

I want us to discuss the country's business,

see what is to be done and do it.

Wild horse, not foal as you said.

If we let him, he will ruin the harnass and destroy the carriage.

When you arrive in Transylvania, go to him and do what I have told you.

In secret. Yes, Your Higness.

The robberies multiplied in Targoviste ad the neighboring villages.

We have caught some and we cut their heads.

Others were hanged.

But still we have not caught many, Your Highness.

After today's punishment, they will lose their appetite.

They are frightened.

No trace of fear. Since this morning all beggars, all dawdlers are merry.

They toast for you and sing obscene songs.

Fulfillment of justice looks like a fair.

Let's choose only a few punishments.

Which ones and how?

They all have the same flaw. Awake the cruelty in us and not the honesty in people.

A punishment which do not personalize the victory of the good

which nobody find out about and from which they don't learn

what there is to learn - is in vain.

What do you command, Your Highness?

Get me all the robbers in the country.

I don't think this is possible, Your Highness.

Many of them withdraw on the boyar's estates when they are cornered.

We have no power there, yet.

Hm... They boyars again...

It had been better to cut them, Your Highness.

We are going through Bran Pass.

We are passing through Bran. Back the convoy up.

How is it? All four are untouched.

I didn' believe to ever see them back.

We are starting!

Start! Come on!

And don't do anything else, but what I told you.

Let there be justice. In plenty.

Nothing should miss a princely feast.

Invite them all.

Let's drink for His Highness!

Lond live Draculea. Lond live the ringleader of the beggars!

Come, quickly!

Don't hit me, leave me alone!

Help! Help!

Have there left real brave men inside?

None. As you ordered, Your Highness.

Then fulfill the work.

Understood, Your Highness.

What is going on here?

What you can see.

Govora is a princely monastery.

Who dared to touch it?

Me. And with me all country's great dregatori.

I took out the sword to defend the boyar's privileges.

We want Albu as our prince.

You'll pay with your head.

Draculea can't get here sooner than 3 days.

In 3 days we'll be ten times as many.

There are also the 2000 horsemen who are on his side.

When they will see what is going on

will get their swords against him and will be ready to fight.

Do you understand now why I gave them to him?

So that there is someone to kill him.

Draculea! Draculea is coming!

Get out of my way!

Protech us, Your Holiness!

We are inside the holy church, your highness.

They should have come to the holy church before, not after!

You shall not kill!

Love thy neighbour as you love yourself,

lead his soul towards the right way

I have to lead the country towards the right way.

Your Holiness should take care of the souls.

They are the business of every shepherd.

Each shepherd with his pipe.

From your higness's pipe come out a pagan sound.

You shall not steal.You shall not kill.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour

You shall not covet anything that belongs to him.

For all to go well with you.

Do the holy commandments sound like this or not?

You have learnt them, your highness but you did not understand them.

Have I ever done otherwise than being said?

Have I ever punished for a different flaw?

From your holiness's pipe come out pagan sounds.

When you want to protect the lawless.

God does not wish for the sinner's death.

But for his righteousness. I know.

But if they are commandments

let them be commandments.

In order to turn 10 sinners into righteous men

one man should die.

In order to turn 100, ten must perish

Serving as an example.

In vain you ask the thief not to steal, the killer not to kill

asking does not serve to anything.

Not the love of God brings people to the church

but fear of the hell's throes.

And your highness wants to embody them.

If you listent to my orders five of you will perish 100

A hundred will banish ten thousand and the enemies will die of sword before you.

If you don't listen to my orders...

I will come with rage and will punish you seven times for your sins.

You will perish from the peoples, the earth of your enemies will swallow you

Do you want me to wait cross-handed for this punisment which means the country's death?

Mahomed is close. In front of him the country should be like an invincible steel sword.

Swords are harden through fire, not words, your holiness.

Impale them! For the whole country to see them and learn!

From now on, this will be the only punishment.

The spike is for the lowest scum. Here are also boyars, your highness.

Are they? Then mark my words: don't put the dregator near the craftsman

the robber near the monk and the boyar near the common people.

Give each one the appropriate spike for his class.

I want to be seen from afar that my justice is the same for all!

Beg him to cut my head off.

He is my brother.

Do you want him by your side?

It is possible in one way: you by his side.

It is a miracle we escaped. You said you wanted to trap him and we all fell into his trap.

Look what has become of us: no fortunes and no estates.

All we have left are our clothes.

I lost more than you did.

It is good that my head is on my shoulders.

What use can you make of it?

Yes, one of Mircea the Old is here in Transylvania, watching the throne.

We go to him, tell we want him our prince, gather an army and leaded by him we return to Targoviste.

Everything we lost will be ours again and even more.

On your horses!

We need to appoint new dregatori.

The custom says I should name them. I could also let you choose them.

I won't do either.

Each of you should choose in his thought and take the administration part he feels worthy for.

Think about it very well, thou. Those who improperly choose themselves I will get them nearer to heaven.

And they will be the ones to blame.

Vornic (having the attributions of a judge).

Vistiernic (treasurer).

Logofat (presiding the council)

From now on you won't pass the custom of Valachia with merchandise which can be found in our country as well.

You won't pass however much, but as much as merchant from my country will go to Brasov

or through there towards other places.

Oxen, horses, wax and fabrics, copper, silver and iron - all are found in Valachia.

What else will we sell to the Turks?

Silver and gold, laces?

You shouldn't have stopped the carts with steel.

Dracula treated us right.

To a hand which reaches out to you, you don't answer with a fist.

We had to stop them. This road links the west and the east.

Passes through our hands, must stay in our hands.

If we share it, we share the earnings, the wealth and the power.

There is no way.Dracula cut it.

He cut it wrong.

The Turks sell veils to us, gems, carpets, silk, lemon, rice, spices, oil.

Can we find one of these merchandise in Valachia?

Buy all Turkish merchandise from the Danube.

Fill up the warehouses.

If we do not give merchandise in exchange, we lose profit.

We'll raise the prices in the west and blame Dracula for that.

Wherever you go, tell everyone that he is a tyrannt, a devil thristed for blood

and his only pleasure is to impale innocent people.

Tell them that he is feasting in front of the spikes

and finds creat pleasure seeing them suffering.

Tell them he burnt the poor instead of being charitable.

Tell them he slaughtered 300 merchants from Brasov together with their wives and children.

The merchants don't walk on the roads wih women and children, like the gypsies.

Everybody know that.

Tell them once, twice or a hundred times and they will end up believeing you.

Picture him as a demon, as an evil spirit, turn the whole Christianity against him.

You slander a man.

You want to cover an evil with another.

There is plenty of room for all merchants from Brasov or Valachia.

Sent te carts with steel to Targoviste.

A deputation should apologize and everything should be as it used to.

There is a war here, without swords and spears.

In any war tere is no room for both us and them.

The law of war is one: either us or them.

How do we get to the Danube? He won't allow all our merchants to pass.

One of our should pass and is enough.

He will buy for all.

Dad, why do they call him Draculea?

How else? Draculea - the son of Dracul (the devil), as they used to call his father - Vlad Dracul.

Was he a devil?

He was a man. A good man.

If he were a good man, why did they call him Dracul?

Because he had a dragon around his neck.

What dragon? Why are you talking nonsense to the boy?

That dragon he had received from the Germans and it was a sign of great honour.

Dad!

What do you want?

Was it a dragon or not?

It was as your grandad says, because he had been in the princely guards and knows better.

Silk, fabric. Buy cheap raisins!

What is their price?

The same as ours.

The road is closed with 7 locks.

Only sword could reopen it.

Let's open it by sword.

Us?

No.

To his majesty, the King od Hungary. Who gave us the Duchy of Amlas and Fagaras.

Vivat!

Gentlemen, thank your king for his support to conquer the throne of Valachia

which as a grandson of Mircea have the right to possess.

I will wait patiently the right time.

You have now all the high ranks, your highness.

You have also chosen your adminitration.

It is real princely court.

Just one thing is missing: the country. But it will come...

Until then, for any need, address to the brave German merchants who will help you.

What do you decide, your highness?

How can you make the most of what was given to us?

We must gather an army and this means great expenses.

Didin't you hear? The German merchants will administer Amlas and Fagaras.

It is the king's will.

Let them be bothered.

To us they will assure our basic needs and soldiers. When the time comes.

What are we supposed to do, your highness?

We go hunting.

Quick, to Targosviste. Let His HIghness know!

Manzila, take half of the country's army, united with those from Targosviste

and smash the Turks.

A messenger from Szilagyi.

Szilagyi is sending word to Your Highness that the king has asken for an armistice.

Your cause with the mrchants from Brasov will be judged as well.

Their deputation will go to Sighisoara.

Let yours come as well.

Johanes Reuden - messenger of the bourg of Brasov.

The messengers of Valachia.

MIhai Szilagyi- capitain of Belgrade citadel.

His excellency Albert, royal vice-chancellor, prepositor of the Archishop of Agria.

I have largely exposed the injustice done to the brave mercants of Brasov,

the persecutions they have been subjected to.

The cruelty of Dracula has shaken the Christian world.

If he would meet The Saviour himself, he would crucify Him for the second time.

Why don't you say a word about what the merchants did against Valachia?

They had to respond in a way to the persecutions that overwhelmed them.

First he showed them undertanding and goodwill.

What they got is what they have asked for.

We know the cause.

You don't need to say it once again.

You know it from the people of Brasov.

Nobody listened to us.

My people spoke for you.

You will give back to the people of Brasov their old privileges.

You will give them back all the merchandise you have taken from them.

Also we olige them to give you back the carts with steel.

Let's make peace.

We will respect this armistice

if his majesty the king won't dispose otherwise.

We are not signing.

First he should send away the pretenders at the borders.

So that our merchants have in Brasov the same rights as the ones from Brasov have in Valachia.

Our brother Vlad is right.

The things he asks will assure peace at the borders of Transylvania.

His will is my own.

Either we do as he wants or we don't sign the armistice.

What did you say?

The armistice is for 3 months.

For how long have you given them back their privileges?

For three months.

Where does it write so? Where?

They will think we gave it forever.

I send yu to sign an armistice and you sign a peace.

That is why I came here to see you?

What happened to you?

You have taken away my sword, but not the wisdom.

Dismiss me from this rank and name somebody more competent.

Do you think that serving the country is like an inn where you go in and out as yu please?

There is no turning back here, for nobody.

There is only one way forward or up.

You know where...

Shall prepare it, your highness?

Not yet.

The day riding, the night riding. No home. I am sick of this job.

It happenes to everybody. We all are tired.

You can't say that his highness spares us or is very grateful.

We both will end up impaled.

I know.

Are you fine with this thought?

I have no choice.

You can always choose.

We only live once, and can do without danger.

The others will kill us, afterwards.

The boyars who do not want a war against the Turks are on our side.

Ho many?

Enough. Those in Amlas and Fagaras will be with us as soon as we let them know.

They know how to be grateful.

Why don't they do that?

They can't do it. The guards are with him all the time.

It is esier for us to find him alone.

The best thing would be when he is saying his prayers.

Does he pray?

For hours, at night.

How do we do it?

Good morning, boyars.

Welcome.

Throw away your swords.

Did you take care of what is necessary?

As you ordered, your highness.

Don't let them wait. They must be tired after such a work.

You have chosen yourself wrong, vornic Stan.

Don't you send me nowhere!

What have you done with the Turks?

From 10,000 I don't know how many have left.

For what rank do you feel yourself worthy, Manzila?

Let me guard you, your highness. As I did my whole life.

Now I have a princely guard.

The guard is defending the prince, but who'll defend your highness?

Tha country pays tribute in vain, for peace at the Danube.

It still doesn't have.

Let's stop paing that!

They will come to take it.

We will welcome them as we should.

In the countr the things are right now.

Why put everything in danger with a war we don't know how will end?

They power has no limits. It would be better to buy our freedom.

Its price is low.

Freedom cannot be bought.

You say the price is low. Don't fool yourselves.

It will always increase ntil one day when the price of freedom

will be the freedom itself.

God forbid us of that day! It will be too late.

Three Years Later

Exalted Mahomed, emperor of the emperors, king of kings

great emir and sultan orders you to give to the Gate your tribute for 3 years.

Add 500 children per year for the army of janissaries.

The padishah also orders yourself to take the tribute to Adrianople.

Why don't you take out your turbans?

Allah has commanded us not to uncover our heads, especially in front of the unfaithful.

What if a wind starts now and would take your turbas away

and your heads will be uncovered, would that be a sin or not?

Would be, but not so big.

This would happen against our will.

You let yourself in the wind, to make you sin or not?

Allah should not be upset, willingly or unwillingly.

Armas!

How do you dare bring me such news?

Cut their heads off!

Yunus Bey.

Do you remember Vlad, my father's former hostage?

I stayed around him, Master.

You will stay.

Where are the merchants?

It is lunchtime.

They left all the merchandise here, without guard?

Who could steal them, nobody would take them. God bless His Highness for the good he brought in the country.

Since when did stealing cease?

About 2 years.

Katavarinos, in the past, in Anatolia, you ued to be a Christian.

Then your highness too was a hostage.

Should I be juded because have passed to the right faith?

May be a more right faith than those of your forefathers?

My forefathers were pagans.They believed in the gods of Olymp.

What is Allah but a lonely Zeus?

You haven't changed. You always fall on your feet, like a cat.

Only if I don't fall in your highness' spikes.

So help you Allah!

What does Mahomed want?

The padishah wouldn't have wanted the tribute, all was decided by Murat.

He can't back up now. Nothin could justify that step.

What should I do to mke this step right?

Your good will would suffice.

Goodwill for what?

Let our army pass towards Hungary. That's all.

No money,no soldiers, no toil.

Your Highness will thus become a friend of the padishah.

Friends do not pay haraci (tribute for the Ottoman Gate).

Come on, tell me. Tell me...

Everything must be a secret. Afer the fall of Buda and when Hungary becomes a pashalic

then won't be any pretenders to the throne, across the mountains.

The country will have the peace it wants.

Facing so many advantages, the answer must be only - "yes".

Well... No!

Your Highness want to defend Hungary?

No.I want to defend my own country.

The padishah will keep his word.

I know. He will keep it.Will conquer Buda, tranform Hungary into a pashalic

What will Valachia become then? An islan into an Ottoman sea.

He won't touch it, but those who follow?

Who wants to be the mater of the world can't leave anything unmastered.

Mahomed knows that.

The Christianity is crumbled with enemy passions like a sea of sand in the wind.

Against it there is a big rock rolling down.

The time to come belongs of he rock.

Sooner or later the shadow of the glorious Semilune will spread all over the earth.

The swords will decide that.

It;s no good to be in the way of the rock.

Mind you, Katavorinos, you are not here to give me advice.

The country mut pay tribute. Twice as much.

Mahomed has inherited a tribute which he did not intend to ask.

It is a tribute I don't intend to pay.

Then let's agree over the borders of Giurgiu, Your Highness.

Let's go here and decide. If not, cut my head off from now

and spare me the trip back to Constantinople.

Allah akbar!

If you don't surrender I will cut your head off, fill it up with tw and send it to Istanbul.

Do you think you will be rewarded for that?

Mahomed can't lift you higher than I could.

Master, they are the soldiers of Yunus Bey, defeated by the giaours.

Open the gates!

Where is the giaour? He's avancing along the Danube. Everybody fleeds off him.

Speak up, dirty servant!

The shore of Bosphorus is full of refugees, King of Kings.

There are as many as the sand. They want to pass to Asia.

I will whip them back to where they fled.

Lift immeiately the siege of Corinth. All armies back to Instanbul.

Your Highness, Dan is passing the mountains through Bran, with an army of mercenaries.

Our soldiers can't stand up in front of them for long.

Go and tell them to withdraw slowly and harass him without stop.

In two ays I will be there. If you find the opportunity, hit him, don't wait for me.

I want Dan alive. His boyars as well.

Give him a spade.

Dig!

The hand of a prince must hold only the sceptre and the sword.

How wold have you defeated a country in front of humiliation?

Let him gid his grave up to the end.

Bring some priests to have a sermon. He should be burried with honor.

He did not know to die as a voievod, at least his burial should be for one.

He is flesh and blood from the great Mircea. They should be lifted up around the grave.

according to their titles. Each lord to sleep into his own foundation.

Your brother Vlad has raised his arm against my empire.

That arm will fall hit by my sword. You are a hostage.

I did not betray you. It is not fair for me to be killed

and the one who confronted you to live.

Take 4,000 soldiers, go to the Danube and try to attract the boyars.

Tell them you will reign.

The Turks are crossing the Danube!

The cannons there... Be careful, don't make noises.

You jackal! Do you want our bones to remain here?

Pass through the mill. The ones in Dry Valley gather there.

Go near his highness. Guard him well!

So long, father!

I ordered the whole country to gather.

Why isn't here the whole army?

Some of the boyars did not obey your order. They did not come with their flags.

The boyars again?

The country has gathered. Children, old men, all who can hold a sword have started to go to your camp.

King Matei also has left Buda with his army.

Yes, he left 6 weeks ago. And he is only halfway.

Don't fool yourself. We will never get anything from anyone.

Then why have you sent messengers?

So that nobody could ever say that they were not aware of our dangers

and for the country to understand that can't wait for anything from anyone.

All troups pass til evening.

At dawn we move towards Targoviste. The march order - as usual.

What do you want to tell me, Yafar?

Let me join the soldiers. I am a warrior.

Very well, go. Take care not to be killed.

Rashid, go and see what's there.

Not a single drop of water. All fountains are poisoned.

In 2 days we have lost more than 200 soldiers. The supplies are scarce.

The soldiers are hungry and thirty.

Nobody should go far from the army.

Bring water from the Danube.

He is weaker than I thought if he thinks he can stop me like that.

Time has come. Don't let them rest. We must haress them.

Let's shake the faith in their own strength.

Yunuss Bey and his soldiers. They have been hanging here for an year.

Let's give to the dead what is appropriate.

"Yunus Bey, do you remember Vlad? My father's former hostage."

"I stayed around him, Master."

The trenches around their camp get smaller and smaller.

So we can easily pass over them.

They are used to our harasses at night.

They hardly wake up, they are less frightened.

We will attack them tomorrow night.

The opening of thir camp is facing the Danube.

The peak is facing Targoviste.

The regular army is here. More than a half is there.

This is the most exhausted and hungry army. They will run away after the first attack.

We don't have enough strength.

I know. Mahomed also knows that is why he has this army of sorts.

We cannot win.

Just do as I told you and we will win.

Stay. What needs to be done I only do it myself.

It's not a princely work, but I have no choice.

Back off! Back off!

Start!

Hey, you! Get into the line!

Water! Water!

The water will be shared at the tent of Adin Pasha.

Don't let them go near!

Water! Share it here!

Tomorrow at dawn we attack Targoviste on 3 lines: Durakan Bey to the right,

Aly Bey in the centre, with 20,000 soldiers

the rest of the army under your command, to the left.

The giaours have taken Turkish clothes and killed the sultan!

What is going on?

The sultan's tent is on fire.

Run to the Danube! Run to the Danube!

Follow me!

Follow me!

Hit them, my brave men!

The giaours! The giaours!

Forward with all forces!

Follow me!

Defend the sultan!

I facd death in Constantinople, Belgrade and on all the battlefields of the islam.

My heart was never afraid. Last night I almost have died like a dog, during my sleep.

Stop them!

Mahomed is dead, I killed him myself. They won't ever dare.

Tear them apart!

Half of my army died here, the other half is running to the Danube.

The ones who have left are wounded.

We are thre hours away from Targoviste.

How can you take the country of a man who did so many special things?

And who knows how to use the power and his subjects.

Bury the dead. We return to Istanbul.

We atacked Snagov. The families of Valachian noblemen are in my hands.

Where did you take them?

In Braila, as you ordered. What about my gold?

Wait!

Padishah, if you give me the army from Braila, I will take the throne.

How can you win where I couldn't?

The boyars will be on my side, I guarantee it with my head.

Try it.

Mahomed is alive!

I have seen him with my eyes.

Three thirds of Mahome's army is dead. We won where nobody could have.

Great victory, Your Highness.

Valachians, Mahomed King of Kings, the light of the world speak to you:

"I don't want to spread my territories over your lands.

I want you to exile Vlad and devote to Radu, his brother.

If you listen to me, my army will withdray beyond the Danube and

no hair will move on your heads. So help me Allah the Almighty!"

Otherwise I will kill your women and children and there will never be peace between us.

What are you waiting for, Your Highness?

Surrender, take your women and kids. I will pretend to flee over the mountains.

Take Radu to Targoviste. I will return unexpectedly and will impale him.

Stop the execution!

I have received a letter from Radu The Beautiful.

What does he want?

He wants to give us back our old privileges if we help him take the throne

and arrange for King Matyas to recognize him.

Against Vlad? Now hat his victory over Mahomed brought him prestige? This is crazy.

King Matyas won't want to hear about it.

Do you have a faithful servant, capable of everything and able to keep quiet?

What do I have to do?

Can you counterfeit the handwriting, the seal and the signature?

Yes. But I can't like this.

Give me the letter to copy.

You don't have to copy. Imitate the handwriting.

It's the same.

What do I have to write?

Emperor of emperors and master of masters, great emir and great sultan

I, Vlad, beg you to forgive my sinful deeds against your power and empire.

I know well Transylvania and Hungary. If your majesty would like

I could pay for my mistake giving you back Transylvania.

When it is in your hands you would be able to easily subjugate Hungary.

My messengers will tell you more.

Copy the signature and the seal.

This is not an easy job. I paid my debt doing it.

I think I deserve a reward.

Otto!

Where do we go, Your Highness?

To Matyas Korvin.

He has arrived with his soldiers beyond the mountains.

We must go and thank him and beg him to return to Buda.

If Radu finds out that he has an army at the borders he'll be frightened

and won't get near Targoviste.

Six years...

They passed as one day.

If I have had at least two...

I haven't built monasteries or citadels, my image won't be in the churches.

But I built in the soul of the country.

This is the most precious work for a voievod.

I leave the country really clean. Everything that was badin it I took over me

and will carry with me.

Go to Stefan, tell him what happened and what's my plan.

He should be in peace in Suceava.

Otherwise Radu won't get near Targoviste and it's a shame that his spike is still empty.

Send somebody else, Your Highness.

No

If he wanted to give to Mahomed Transylvania and Hungary why didn't he doit from the very beginning?

The price would have been smaller.

This is crazy.

All his actions show he is insane. His cruelty, his thirst for blood

has never distinguished between friends and enemies.

The hole Christianity knows his acts and is shaken.

Only a sick mind can think of such a crazy plan.

If we hadn't caught the messengers, your life would have been endangered.

Where are the messengers?

They died fighting for their lives.

My man can testify that.

A war against Mahomed is undesirable. You know that.

We have enough trouble in the west.

The letter is a knife Dracula wanted to stick into the heart of Christianity.

If it had reached the hands of the sultan, Hungary would have been lost.

We wouldn't have had the time to take our swords out.

Don't hesitate. Otherwise we have to welcome him as a hero.

What are Your Majesty's orders?

He was sent to prison in Visegrad for 12 years. In November 1476 he succeeds to take back the throne of Valachia

with Steven The Great's help. But he reigned only for two months, being killed on night.