J. Bartoš

Marie 1 et Marie 2 s’ennuient fermement. Leur occupation favorite consiste à se faire inviter au restaurant par des hommes d’âge mûr, puis à les éconduire prestement. Fatiguées de trouver le monde vide de sens, elles décident de jouer le jeu à fond, semant désordres et scandales, crescendo, dans des lieux publics...

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.

Une vieille femme est surprise à voler une hostie consacrée pendant la messe pour guérir une vache qui ne donne plus de lait. Le curé y voit signe de sorcellerie et demande à la seigneurie locale d'ordonner un tribunal d'inquisition pour juger les coupables au grand dam du clergé de la ville persuadé qu'il n'y a là qu'ignorance et superstition. Mais l'inquisiteur, homme insidieux, envieux et cruel, y voit un moyen aisé de s'accaparer les richesses et d'éliminer ses ennemis, et bien vite la machine s'emballe sous la torture et les bûchers s'enflamment.

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.