Darwinova dcera – Budil Ivo T. (2019)

In June 1941, Berlin, the metropolis of democratic and pacifist Germany, enjoys peace and prosperity. Young doctor and anthropologist Josef Mengele is guiding a group of English tourists through the lively and cosmopolitan city. In the foyer of the local Natural History Museum stands a statue of the founder of modern evolutionary theory, the English naturalist Richard Owen. What happened to Charles Darwin? How will the search of young Frenchwoman Constance Pinel, accompanied by her loyal companion Andrew Arrowsmith, for her missing father turn out? And how did the events of 1858 fundamentally change the course of history? We find ourselves in a world where Charles Darwin never published his book On the Origin of Species. In this thrilling story with an unexpected resolution, we glimpse through the life stories of various real and fictional personalities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into the dramatic social, scientific, and artistic life of France and Great Britain, traveling to Lausanne, Florence, and Ardeche, and penetrating into the interior of the Amazon and the tropical islands of Malaysia and Indonesia.