Tomáš Hanták

Un marchand veuf vit avec ses trois filles. Julie, la cadette lui demande de lui ramener une rose. Sur le chemin du village, il s'endort sur son cheval en traversersant une forêt enchantée. Il se réveille devant un chateau et cueille une rose dans le parc de la "Bête", monstre mi-homme mi-bête, acte qui équivaut à un arrêt de mort. Julie va se sacrifier à la place de son père et se rend dans la féérique demeure de la Bête. Elle va découvrir derrière sa laideur un être vulnérable qui souffre...

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.

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.

Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important thing in life or what he is looking for and what he longs for in life.