The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far...
В Англии XIX века группа горожан уничтожила графа Миттерхауса, похищавшего детей из их города. Граф был вампиром и проклял весь город, пообещав, что кровь детей его убийц возродит его к жизни. Через пятнадцать лет после этих событий в городе разразилась эпидемия неизвестной болезни, а вскоре туда нагрянул цирк с удивительными представлениями, в которых черная пантера превращалась в симпатичного цыгана, а две летучие мышки — в пару акробатов-близнецов.
