This production of Ostrava TV Studios was inspired by actual events which occurred in the Ostrava region of Moravia during the 1920s and 1930s. A hedonistic bon vivant of a lawyer named Zajícek (played by Václav Postránecký) came up with a sophisticated finance speculation scheme which exceeded the bounds of law. When discovered it became one of the most closely-followed First Republic scandals.
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...
1937. Pepita and Mari Carmen spend every afternoon together trying to cope with the loneliness of th...
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her pe...
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a c...
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a...
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The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelij...
North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an appar...
An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dr...
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the ...
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravaga...
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's sky...
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne t...
A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932...
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murderi...