television film directed by Viktor Polesný

In a godforsaken cave, a traveling journeyman fills his pockets with gold. Voita lost his father and mother in the war and is now seeking his fortune in the world. He got to the abyss at Gallows Mountain only by chance - or have mysterious powers led him there in this spooky stormy night? Suddenly, he notices a strange fellow among the treasures. The apparent ghost and custodian of this treasure chases away the young man, who still manages to secretly pocket a small, fateful lighter...

Two clumsy devils Popelák and Uhelák, punished by the ruler of hell, embark on a journey to bring two sinful souls from earth.

1996 film directed by Petr Vaclav

'“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.

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.