1988年的布拉格,大提琴手路卡(Zdenek Sverák 饰)丢掉了乐团的工作多时,只能靠为殡仪馆伴奏和修补墓碑为生。这位大龄单身汉在女人面前颇有魅力,他也乐此不疲,但困窘的生活让他不得不违背初衷,与一位苏联女子假结婚以获得报偿。婚后几日,苏联女子转道投奔西德,将五岁幼子科里亚(Andrei Chalimon 饰)丢给路卡抚养,路卡有一搭没一搭的用对方听不懂的捷克话向科里亚抱怨苏联人的霸道,同时还要应付警察对假结婚的追查以及敌视苏联人的母亲。路卡拜托多位女友照顾科里亚,这对父子也慢慢产生了对彼此的依赖,不久苏联政府要接回孩子,路卡趁着八十年代末混乱的形势,带着科里亚离家出走……
本片获1997年奥斯卡最佳外语片奖,1996年威尼斯电影节荣誉奖等十几项褒奖。。The story of the relationship between the King who is renown for his ruthlessness and his subject who became his trusted steersman. They met when the King decided to disguise himself as commoner to see how his subject was doing. He befriend a commoner after a fight to decide who should win the girl's hand. They become blood brother and the commoner was assigned to be his steers...。跟随凯利,因为她必须在她的宿敌“布鲁克斯”旁边工作,布鲁克斯是她哥哥高中时最好的朋友,现在拥有凯利家族糖果店的一半。。