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Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
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No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban.
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The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and half kg of gold for a gold tooth for a hippo. During the check up of the hippo's teeth Bedrich is swallowed by the hippo. The man does not die in the hippo's guts and he chats quite happily with his frightened wife Dása. Journalist Pip Karen, his friend is also present to the dialogue and he has immediately an idea how to use this special situation. He tells to the new minister Borovec and his opponent professor Fibinger that there is a hippo in the zoo which can speak. He also tells them how to use this situation for a political propaganda.
1948년, 체코의 모라비아에 위치한 작은 시골 마을. 나라는 급격한 변화를 겪고 있지만 이곳의 사람들은 여전히 순수함을 간직한 채 즐겁게 살아가고 있다. 하지만 결국 변화의 물결이 조금씩 밀려오고, 주민들의 평화로운 일상은 요동치기 시작한다. 1968년 소련이 체코를 침공했을 당시 상영을 금지당하기도 했던 작품. 1969년 칸영화제 최우수감독상 수상.
(2014 체코영화제 역사적 순간들)
