Jan Libora

The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. The reformed petty swindler Felix Pacínek (Bohumil Smída) runs the hotel. The business is far from thriving; the place is half-empty, and the jazz band Skeleton, together with their singer Zuzanka (Jaroslava Obermaierová), decide to leave. Nobody in the hotel has any idea that the band is in fact a gang of thieves who have just robbed the Prague State Bank, taking two million crowns from its vaults.

Antonin de meia-idade e seus amigos, o major, agora aposentado, e o cónego, estão no rio, a nadar e filosofar. Em seguida, começa a chover. Apenas parece ser aquele tipo de verão. Antonin gere os banhos e natação com a sua opulenta esposa, Katherine... Um homem aparece com a sua caravana puxada por cavalos. Estende uma trave listrada para o outro lado do rio e caminha. Com um pino e um truque de mágica. Ernie o Ilusionista convida a todos para a performance daquela noite... Ernie é um equilibrista de apenas modesta habilidade, mas com uma assistente magra e bonita, Anna. Antonin fala com ela. Os dois passam a noite no balneário junto ao rio, Antonin a massajar os pés dela durante toda a noite. Katherine decide mudar-se para a caravana com Ernie. Mas agora o major e até mesmo o cónego sentem a atratividade de Anna ...

The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska brings up their three children and desperately tries to get by on her husband's low salary every month. At the same time, she sadly watches the luxurious life of their neighbor and other people like him who have no qualms about improving their standard of living by cheating. One day, the infallible Safránek makes a mistake in the cash clearance and there are nine one-hundred Crown bills left in the safe. An unexpected company control carried out the next day passes without problems and the account is closed. The temptation is too strong. The insufficient control enables Safránek to gradually steal one million Crowns.

A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.

At the Ronov castle, the archive-keeper professor Nykl (Milos Nedbal) is searching for the lost painting The Naked Shepherdess by the famous Fragonard. Nykl is just about to disassemble the mantelpiece in the knight's hall, convinced that the painting must be hidden somewhere inside. His efforts, however, meet the strong disapproval of the castle manager, Anna Juzová (Jirina Petrovická), who knows very well where The Naked Shepherdess is. She wants to get hold of the painting herself, to emigrate and smuggle it along. In fact, Anna deals with forgeries of the most distinguished old masters, selling them abroad. The copies are made for her by the painter and restorer Maudr (Martin Ruzek) and the certificates of authenticity are issued by Anna's companion - expert Laburda (Karel Höger). One day, Anna is found murdered in front of the castle's fireplace.