Kdyz draka boli hlava (2018)

The royal children Tomík and Barborka are spending their holidays with their grandparents in the mountains. Their grandparents have retreated here, into the seclusion of nature, to spend their old age. The children enjoy the simple life and the freedom they have here. Their grandfather is not only a king but also a blacksmith, with the unusual feature that his forge is fired by a two-headed dragon. (In the original dubbing, one head speaks Czech and the other Slovak.) The dragon Čmoudík is practically part of the family and even sits at the table with them. In the evenings, however, he retreats to his cave. In the dragon’s cave, the children find an old map, and Čmoudík tells them its story: Long ago, a great dragon watched over the entire kingdom, which was then divided into three parts. One day, the dragon fell in love with the daughter of the king of the upper kingdom, but she loved the prince of the lower kingdom. This made the dragon so angry that, egged on by the evil Wurmschneck, he cursed both kingdoms. No one would ever again be able to fall in love with someone from the other kingdom. Anyone who defied this would be turned into a dead tree, a stone, or a forget-me-not. The inhabitants of the kingdoms were allowed to meet without punishment only twice a year, at the equinoxes. They always celebrate these days exuberantly, and the kings join in too. The queens want nothing more than for their children to be able to become a couple, but the curse forbids it. Princess Adelka and Prince Janko, however, don’t care about the prohibitions and arrange to meet in the forest the next day. Although the petrified people and trees frighten them, they are not deterred from going deeper into the forest. They reach the dragon’s cave, which Adelka thinks is very untidy. She sets about tidying and cleaning it. When the dragon returns to his cave that evening, he is initially annoyed, but is quickly won over by the delicious soup Adelka has cooked for him. He is also glad to have such varied company, since otherwise he had only Wurmschneck for company. From then on, Adelka and Janko visit the dragon regularly, much to Wurmschneck’s displeasure. At the next equinox festival, the kings announce that they will soon marry off their children separately, in accordance with the curse. But Adelka and Janko refuse to accept this and meet despite all the prohibitions and house arrests. On their next visit to the dragon, they find him very unhappy. He is mourning his dragon egg, which he accidentally lost and which has ended up in the river. Janko sets out to look for the egg and retrieves it from the water. After the dragon keeps it warm, a two-headed dragon hatches from it. Wurmschneck naturally rants and calls the little dragon a monstrosity, but Adelka and Janko say that two heads ought to mean twice the wisdom. The dragon regrets his curse when Adelka and Janko reveal that they are in love. He cannot lift the curse himself, but hopes the two can still be together and gives each of them a gift to help them avoid having to comply with their parents’ wishes for their marriages. Their parents have already invited several princes and princesses, who are due to present themselves soon. With the dragon’s gifts, however, all the marriage candidates are driven away. Their parents now realize that their children are meant for each other and decide to fight the dragon’s curse. But the curse can only be broken if two royal children kiss and thereby sacrifice themselves. Adelka and Janko are willing to do so. They kiss and instantly turn into two forget-me-nots. The old dragon is very sad and deeply regrets having cast the curse in the first place. The only way to free Adelka and Janko is to shine the stars from the head of the great dragon in the sky onto them. He cannot manage it himself, but the little two-headed dragon succeeds in flying up to the sky and fetching the stars, despite his wings being far too short. Once Adelka and Janko have regained their human forms, a grand wedding celebration is held. At the end of the story, Tomík and Barborka realize that their grandparents must be Adelka and Janko.