Prosper Mérimée: Etruscan vase

The French writer Prosper Mérimée wrote his most important works in the 1930s and 1940s. He gained fame mainly for his novels. They have a lot of romantic elements, sensitivity, interest in exotic lands, play with mystery and fantasy. At the same time, however, realism is also manifested in them. Mérimée's novels with their mystery, often tragic, place the author among the founders of horror in European literature. The cast includes Jiří Adamíra, Martin Stropnický, Michal Pavlata, Pavel Soukup and Helena Friedrichová.