Known for Acting
A TV personality returns home for her sister's wedding and realizes she still has feelings for an ex-boyfriend who is now her sister's fiancé.
Attractive and ambitious Veronika 'Nika' Jirásková wants to succeed in a profession that is still almost exclusively the domain of men, even in these times of burgeoning emancipation - she wants to become a firefighter! Although she has been strongly warned by her friends and family that she has put up a really tough fight that she may not be able to win, Nika refuses to give up without a fight and decides to bravely face not only the negative reactions of some of her male colleagues, but also social conventions and especially the painful discovery of her own physical and psychological limits.
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
The story is based on Operation Stone, during which State Security agents deliberately misled citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic who were attempting to leave the country illegally by creating fake borders and fake border patrols and interrogation teams from American, German, and French authorities. During interrogations, State Security officers convinced detainees that they had actually crossed the state border of our republic and obtained information from unsuspecting people, which was then used in criminal proceedings.
King Jaroslav and Queen Anna rule over the kingdom of humans. At first glance, it is clear that they do not elevate themselves above others; their children play normally with others, and the royal couple has a good relationship with the family of the stable boy Petr. The neighboring Forest Land is a place where laws that should not be broken reign supreme. Its ruler remains mysteriously in the background, and people can only meet the land's administrator, Pavučinec. King Jaroslav is punished for breaking a long-standing ban and must balance his freedom with a gift for Pavučinec. When he finds out that he would have to give up his son, he tries to save him. But something for something—will Pavučinec choose his sacrifice after all?
