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The biographical story of Pavel Emanuel Dobšinský - a television film about the life and knowledge of a man who managed to stay true to himself, his people and his ideas despite the times. The story begins at the end of the great storyteller's life, when through his own memories, captured by his hand and in book form, he returns to his childhood, the time he entered the Levoč grammar school, to 1840. In this film, author Peter Glocko, a trusted expert on Dobšinský's work and life, guides us through all the personal and historical vicissitudes of the hero's life, reveals the influences that marked his ability to squeeze into his stories the wisdom of knowledge and knowledge of the people from which he came, as well as the basic life principles that the reader - young or old - still draws from his tales.
The hero of the tale, based on Samuel Czambel's story, is banished from his home because of laziness - let him learn something in the world. Who knows how he would have turned out if he hadn't accidentally acquired four miraculous things that can make one full, overpower the enemy and make one invisible. Thanks to them, he falls into the king's favour and is about to marry a princess. But she robs him of all the miraculous things and turns him into a laughing stock. But because justice always prevails in a fairy tale, our hero finds a way to punish the princess. The old hermit's advice, strange pears and even stranger apples will help him...
On one May day in 1864, N. G. Chernyshevsky, a writer and revolutionary democrat, was declared a state criminal and sentenced to hard labor in Siberian mines. A group of young people, raznochintsy, is seeking to include them in the expedition of the Russian Geographical Society with the secret goal of organizing Chernyshevsky’s escape...
Trajja's tricksters like to have fun at other people's expense and they always manage to make some crown along the way. They are even so clever that they can outwit even bandits and deprive them of their treasure. However, they neglect their wives and so they decide to lead their successful husbands around by the nose.
