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 BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

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Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

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