'“The play''s the thing – but certainly not everything.” – Variety
More than just a simple retelling of Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same name, and more than just the filming of a stage play, Czech filmmaker Petr Zelenka’s The Karamazovs weaves itself through multiple layers of text incorporating the novel, play, film and real life into one larger than life production.
Following the Czech Dejvicke Theatre troupe as they prepare to perform the play in a run-down steel works in Poland, life begins to imitate art as the actors and their characters come closer together, strengthened by circumstance and tragedy.

Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore.

Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.