"The Rubious Crosses" is the fourth episode of famous propagandistic TV series "Thirty Cases of Major Zeman". Young Zeman, just only a rural policeman, is asked to pretend that he was Richard Lipinsky, one caught and killed terrorist. The sign of these men is a cross with rubies. They plan to break a safe and prepare the way for emigrants and other wreckers. There is also an anticlerical overtone in the history is distorted. But this case is good for its strong atmosphere of postwar Czechoslovakia. There is disquiet and uncertainty, reverberation of war events and expectation of changes. The October locations are hypnotic, e.g. cemetery in Brno, church etc. The music is wonderful again: Zdenek Liska works with the light melodious motives here which answer with the sunny, but autumnal scenes.
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