Anachronistically, the Voievode Barzovius and his companions arrive at the sultan’s court, where they are greeted by the “odalisque on duty”.  Methodius and Jovanutz, on the other hand, finally get to see the Pope, and the scene in which Methodius recounts the meeting is, like many other episodes, a classic example of (self‑)irony : “The Pope asked us where Moldavia was. And ? And we told him. And what did he say ?

• O sută de ani la porţile Orientului / A Hundred Years at the Gates of the Orient

• Ioan Groşan