Summary
Choosing to follow up on Svatby pana Voka (Weddings of Petr Vok of Rožmberk, 1970) after nearly a decade, Karel Steklý created another costume comedy feature. This 1979 film introduces the protagonist as the now ageing, pleasure-seeking renaissance aristocrat Petr Vok of Rožmberk. Martin Růžek replaces Miloš Kopecký in the leading role for the sequel. Over the years, the hero has been overtaken by a quite different mood – he is a depressed widower at an advanced age whom his friends try to entertain in vain. Why, they would even get him a “genuine” mermaid… But Petr has grown tired of female company too: he escapes the marriage-seeking Countess von Montfort (Iva Janžurová) and dedicates himself to more profound matters commensurate with his age. He declines to involve himself in a plot against Emperor Rudolf (Zdeněk Řehoř) and in time he finds a new sense in life through a friendship with eccentric inventor Žabka (Václav Neckář).
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