The Emperor and the Golem

Císařův pekař a pekařův císař (The Emperor's Baker and The Baker's Emperor) is a czech two parted historical comedy,directed by Martin Frič ,produced in 1951.It is set in the reign of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor .It is one of the best known films of Jan Werich the emperor and baker being his most famous role. The Script is done by Jan Werich, Jiří Brdečka and Martin Frič . It first folows the aging and ecentric Rudolf II.,refusing to hear out embasadors and falling into fits, destroying vazes and dishes.The conflict between him and his brother Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor is demonstrated here. He welcomes Magister Kelly in his palace and showes him around.

He keeps an alchemist laboratory in his palace,where generaly either swindlers or fools work (one desires to materiliase dark,another beats with a hammer on a piece of metal and imediatly begins to examine it,wishing so to change it into gold).There is also a character, who,when the Emperor asks him of his doings,he always begins to bable in a sensless language.(In the end,it is revealed that he has been making "Slivovice",a well known Moravian alcoholic drink from plums).

One character apears repeatedly,his name being Alessandro Scotta (called Honza Skoták),who instead of experiments cooks sausages and aproaches the emperor with a cleaning product,with witch he imediatly cleanes the floor,making it slipery,witch causes in another person sliping and the emperor to laugh. Rudolf is obsesed by finding the Golem .He and Scotta later acidently stumble on him,while performing a magic ritual(not as it's result).But he does not have the Shem and canot awaken him.

The movie follows a baker,Matěj (also played by Werich,but as a younger man,the Rudolf) who is confronted with the angry people,who wan't bakery,but can not recieve it,because it wen't to the palace.He is later imprisoned in the dungeons. Later on Kelly reveals his homunculus,who'm the Emperor wishes to teach evrything of our world (not knowing that she is a plain girl,forced by Kelly to act as such). She and Matěj comunicate through vents between Kelly's room and the dungeons.

Later the Emperor takes part in what is suposed to make him young again.Then he and another ride on a carriage to remind themselves of the sins of their misspent youth.

Meanwhile Matěj escapes the dungeons.Un-knowing subjects of the Emperor find the fugitive (who bears a supreme likenes to the Emperor in his young days) in a bath and,believing the rejuvination to have worked out hold him for the emperor.Matěj get's into an embarased scene with the emperor's "consort" (something like a guest,only longer staying and generaly arguing with Rudolf).He believes he killed her and put's her on top of a two-story bed.

A sphere of intrigue (shown rather humorously) between the emperor's councillors is shown and all basicly want teh shem,witch a hound is spoted to have. Matěj (as the emperor) sits as a table with Galileo and talks about planets and as the astronomer demonstrates the moving of planets with the wine cups,he mixes a wine cup with poison,aranged by the councilors.They stuned,un-knowing witch cup is the poisobed take their on Matěj's demands.

The situation escalates,as the Golem is awakened and destroy's the general,who wanted to use him to conquer the whole world. The Emperor returns and chaos is large.The Matěj manages to reason Golem into stoping and then uses his power to bake for the poor.