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A teen blogger must go from downtown to a small town when an unfortunate event forces her to live with the biological father she's never met.
Set in Czechoslovakia, the drama follows the lives of its characters against the backdrop of real historical events that shape their personal stories. To evoke period atmosphere, the series intersperses authentic clips from vintage Czechoslovak film newsreels, using their original commentaries or newly recorded historical voice-overs by Vladimír Fišer. A narrator, initially voiced by Vojtěch Kotek and later by Matěj Hádek, provides continuity and reflection, guiding viewers through changing times. Under the guidance of screenwriter Rudolf Merkner, each episode’s script weaves family and individual dramas into key moments of Czech and Slovak history: political shifts, cultural trends, and social transformations from the 1960s onward.
Jitka Schneiderová and Jiří Langmajer as husband and wife. He is a very busy lawyer, she is a housewife. A seemingly happy, modern, childless family. Until a car crash enters their lives, a traffic accident that took place somewhere far away near Pilsen...
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.
Shark in the Head unfolds into a stunning cinematic powerhouse that combines comedy and drama for a touching story about how we influence the people we meet while being profoundly affected ourselves by the colors they bring to our own lives.
The eccentric colonel's wife decides to take her recently deceased husband's urn home from the cemetery, which gives her essentially kind but otherwise terrible descendants an idea of how to get their hands on their father's not-so-small inheritance. However, because they lack the ingenuity and thoroughness (which, incidentally, their mother excels at) to carry out their plan in complete secrecy, everything ends in disaster...
A sad story about love between Czech boy and German girl during 1944.
