23 Aug 1961
The Pit and the Pendulum
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Poslední královna
The play about the life of Eliška, the last of the Přemyslid dynasty, follows ten years of her life journey from the moment of her marriage to John of Luxembourg to her rejection by the king in 1320.
Top Billed Cast
Jana Andresíková 
Jaromír Hanzlík 
Marie Drahokoupilová 
Václav Neužil 
Vladimír Šmeral 
Karel Hábl Milan Riehs Karel Šebesta 
Jan Kanyza 
Karel Urbánek Josef Mráz Zdeněk Hodr 
Jiří Havel 
Jiřina Steimarová 
Jana Drbohlavová Karel Beníško 
Ladislav Trojan Miroslav Nohýnek 
Otto Lackovič 
Karel Hlušička
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