On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, considerably freeing the original format of literary conversation from binding conventions. Capek and Masaryk reproach and offend each other, but they also ask key personal questions and questions about the social functions of a writer and politician respectively. "It's a film about two extraordinary men; it's about the fact that emotions can be sometimes more powerful than ideas even in such exceptional people.

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A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes a...

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A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...

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A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...

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The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

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A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...