Frank, a native New Yorker, acquires an ancient family mansion - Kostka Castle - thanks to his aristocratic ancestors. After more than forty years, the descendant of emigrants is about to make a grand return to Bohemia with his daughter Marie and his vivacious wife Vivien. The new aristocrats are unfamiliar with the local conditions and unenchanted with Czech reality; they know their former homeland and castle life only from the ancient stories of their relatives. The matters connected with the return of the property are solved for them by their lawyer Benda. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the castle is in a state of gradual decay, away from all social events. The only permanent inhabitants of Kostka are the backward castellan Josef, the sharp-tongued housekeeper Mrs. Ticha and the hypochondriac maintenance man Krasa. While the Kostka family is slowly waking up from the sleep of the post-revolutionary 1990s, the Kostka family faces a difficult choice: whether to sell the mansion built by generations and return to America, or to try to save Kostka Castle. The film is based on the book of the same name by Evzen Bocek. Written by vostrovskybohumil

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• title-same-as-book
• castle
• aristocrat
• czech-aristocrat
• nobleman
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• Comedy

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