This film takes the gorgeous, magical look of Czech fairy tales to yet another level. The Czech Republic is a wizard in cinematography, the backdrops are always luscious, the castles and palaces keep coming and the magic is so palpable that after watching only fairy tales from the far country, my family and I have this notion that the Republic is actually some fairy tale world, with these films being records of what happens/happened there. My father should know better as he visited Prague briefly for work decades ago, and he said it was a country of the real and modern world. But the films are so convincing and so thick with authentic fairy tale atmosphere, that I can't help thinking that together with its sister Slovakia, the Czech Republic is some vestige of a magical world and still has princesses and princes to cobblers meeting & marrying each other all the time, with the underworld intersecting here, and dragons casting their shadow there. It's a testament to how flawlessly they make these films that even reality finds it hard to intrude on the impression it gives. I love them all, thanks to CzechMovie for allowing us to access this world of perfected filming of fairy tales.