Um inquisidor implacável transforma as superstições dos camponeses locais em heresia religiosa, encontrando motivos para acusar dezenas de homens e mulheres inocentes de bruxaria. O inquisidor tem como alvo nobres e comerciantes, cujas propriedades e bens são confiscados. Depois de sofrer uma série de torturas medievais, a maioria dos acusados confessa - apenas para ser queimada viva na fogueira, enquanto os moradores desamparados observam. Com sua cinematografia arrojada e impressionante, o filme captura cenas de nudez ousada e tortura brutal. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Detective Lieutenant Boruvka (Lubomír Lipský) is called to the State Scientific Library to investigate the loss of a precious manuscript, the Infernal Psalter of the Occult Sciences by Master Peregrinus from the eleventh century, written in a secret script which has only recently been deciphered by senior lecturer Zajíc (Josef Chvalina). Chaos is reigning in the labyrinth of passages and halls of the former monastery where the library is housed. In order to save space the director of the library has introduced a peculiar system. The books are arranged in the bookcases according to height and six girls dressed in black, the library assistants, are quite happy to cut volumes down to size in case of need. Boruvka refuses the case, since he is specialist in murders. He has to return to the investigation, however, when senior lecturer Zajíc disappears.
The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (Milos Kopecký) in Italy. He leaves for Italy accompanied by a deputation from Bohemia. On the way the prince's company fights a battle with armed Milanese against heavy odds. Thanks to Charles's perspicacity, the prince's almost naked soldiers win through. In Lucca in Italy Charles joins his father, and here he experiences an amorous adventure and escapes from the traps laid by the Italian rebels.
Utilizando-se de avançados efeitos especiais para a época, Vera Chytilová dirigiu esta obra surrealista que conta a história de duas garotas chamadas Marie, que decidem se adequar ao mundo como ele está: sendo depravadas. Portanto, ambas partem para uma série de encontros forjados e travessuras, desconstruindo o mundo ao seu redor.
