Zdeněk Zelenka's big-production fairy tale is based on the story 'Intelligence and Luck' by Karel Jaromír Erben. The filmmakers spice up the conflict between these two personifications by adding a third: Envy (played by the delightful Jiřina Bohdalová). The film, a box office hit, tells the story of a country boy named Matěj who suddenly 'gains his wits' and asks for the princess's hand, at the same time her royal father has been deprived of reason.

Cast / Filip Blažek , Eduard Cupák , Oldřich Vlach , Libuše Šafránková , Barbora Bobulová , Petr Nárožný , Jiřina Bohdalová , Ivan Vyskočil , Jaromír Hanzlík , Petr Kostka    Writer / Zdeněk Zelenka    Story / Zdeněk Zelenka , K. J. Erben    DoP / Viktor Růžička    Editor / Zdenek Patočka    Sound / Jan Štorek , Jan Kacian    Music / Jiří Svoboda

Release date / 25 November 1993