At the "Virtuous Susan" inn ["U cudné Zuzany" inn], the beautiful and charming landlady Zuzana looks after her customers. Her servant Přech is helping her by filling up the wineglasses. Zuzana always takes advantage of her guests' enchantment with her to pour poison into their goblets from a ring she wears on her finger. This time the victim is a Turkish gentleman. When he dies of the poison, the two take all his belongings. Then Přech throws the man down into the cellar, to join all their previous victims. Their next victims are a knight in armour and an old nobleman. Late at night, with the help of her servant, Zuzana brews the poison from grated human skull, bats, snakes and other ingredients. Then she fills her ring with the lethal mixture. The next visitor is a young man who tries to poison Zuzana instead. They both survive each other's murder attempt and end up in bed in a passionate embrace. Her devoted but jealous servant Přech offers them two poisoned goblets of wine. He then covers the dead Zuzana's body with kisses and dies, having taken poison from her ring.
hospodská Zuzana
sluha Přech
host-sličný mladík s loutnou
host-Turek
host-starý šlechtic
host-rytíř v brnění
Jiří Mařas, Růžena Hulínská
Jolana Bajtková (klapka), Josef Janoušek (fotograf)
Song Composer Zdeněk Liška
Writer of Lyrics Pavel Kopta
Singer Yvetta SimonováMilan Chladilmužský hlasženský hlas
Otrávená travička
Otrávená travička
Poisoned Poisoner
Pražské noci
povídka
featuretheatrical distribution
fantastic, historical, short-story
Czechoslovakia
1968
1968
short film
14 min
402 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, without dialogue, sung
without subtitles
Czech
