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A historic detective serial from the 1920s. That was the decade when both the surrounding urban areas but also nearby villages, forests, factories and farms were made part of Greater Prague. Prague’s new districts were less rich and glamorous than the centre and brought to the capital specific forms of crime, which began to be investigated by the Prague state police instead of local policemen. The serial’s hero is Inspector Budík, an ambitious man who finds it hard to take when political pressure results in him being put in charge of the lowly mud-spattered suburbs and not the posh, bustling centre. The crime stories featured in the serial are inspired by real-life cases from the period.
HD | 10 x approx. 68´ | © 2021
director(s): Jaroslav Brabec
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Petr Zikmund, Jan Drbohlav
director of photography: Pavel Berkovič
cast: Jaroslav Plesl, Jiří Langmajer, Denis Šafařík, Lenka Vlasáková, Darija Pavlovičová, Lucie Žáčková, Mira Štěpánová, Miroslav Táborský, František Němec and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English (parts 1, 4)