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.
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A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...
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In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visi...
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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...
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...
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a...
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's sky...
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the ...
After being put on indefinite leave by his chief of police uncle, the highly intelligent and arrogan...
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity...
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A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s,...
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...