Lucie Hertlová

Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest fan, answers the questions of his schoolfriend Pavlína in a superior tone. Student Zuzana (Libuse Safránková), who gave her scarf to Honza to wear around his neck for the races as a talisman is Honza's girlfriend. He met her when he came to her parent's home to repair the TV set. Honza declines an invitation to celebration with his friends. He goes off with Zuzana instead, but she refuses his intimate advances. The offended young man, who is about to serve his two years in the army, tries to blackmail her emotionally and the couple breaks up. Martin tries various schemes to bring them together again.

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.

아돌프는 뭇 여성의 관심을 한몸에 받을 만큼 매력 넘치지만 정작 자신이 관심 있는 이의 사랑은 받지 못한다. 그가 좋아하는 건 풋내기 오페라 가수 야니치카. 하지만 그녀는 유명인에게만 관심이 있다. 어느 날 그리스인 파르티잔 아포스톨레크를 알게 된 아돌프에게 좋은 생각이 떠오른다. 그를 멋있게 꾸며 야니치카에게 그리스에서 온 작곡가라고 속여 소개할 계획이다. 자신을 무시하는 야니치카에게 복수하기 위해 시작된 이 속임수는 그러나 아돌프의 계획과는 완전히 다른 방향으로 나아가기 시작한다.

In the village cemetery, the funeral of a married couple - victims of a car crash - is ending. The relatives unscrupulously take away the facilities of the dead people's little cottage, totally ignorant of the fate of eight-year old Ruda, whom the childless couple took from a children's home and adopted. Fortunately, an elderly lonesome uncle named Tony remains in the empty cottage and decides to take care of the boy, nicknamed Münchie after Baron Münchhausen for his wild imagination.