​​The Children of Lidice - (Screenplay in Progress) In June 1942, the peaceful Czech village of Lidice becomes the target of Hitler’s vengeance after the assassination of SS commander Reinhard Heydrich. When Nazi official Karl Hermann Frank selects the village for total destruction, the decision is made not in chaos but in cold calculation—inside the marble chambers of Prague Castle where officers sip coffee and plot extermination.Through intercut scenes of bureaucratic evil and rural innocence, we meet Eva Novotná, a bright ten-year-old schoolgirl; Tomas Kucera, a shepherd boy devoted to his little sister Lenka; and Marek Horak, the son of a resistance courier. On the day of the raid, soldiers descend with trucks and fire. Eva hides in a hay wagon, Tomas flees into the forest, and Marek vanishes into the tunnels beneath the school as Lidice burns behind them.Alone and displaced, the surviving children navigate a world reduced to ash. Eva is sheltered in a monastery by a courageous priest; Tomas and Lenka are taken in by a German widow, Greta, who risks her life to protect them; and Marek joins resistance couriers in the mountains. Their stories unfold in haunting contrast to the Nazi command rooms, where men draft the infamous communiqué: 'Lidice no longer exists.'As the war ends, Europe lies broken. Eva, now thirteen, leads a group of orphans toward Prague amid ruins and refugees. Years later, she returns to the site of Lidice—now a field of silence and roses. Unearthing a rusted tin box filled with children’s drawings and names, she reads them aloud, keeping her vow to remember what the world tried to erase.In the closing images, archival footage reveals the trials of the men who ordered Lidice’s destruction. The film fades with the solemn note:“Lidice was rebuilt in 1955. No child of the original village ever returned.”The Children of Lidice is a story of memory versus erasure, innocence amidst tyranny, and the fragile endurance of humanity when faced with the machinery of vengeance.

 

The Last Fare of Paris - (Screenplay in Progress) In Nazi-occupied Paris, a weary Czech taxi driver named Henri Španek risks everything to ferry more than passengers — he smuggles messages, forged papers, and fugitives through the city’s shadowed boulevards under the guise of ordinary fares. When he encounters Claire, a young Jewish pianist desperate to reach the Free Zone, their brief journey becomes a race against time and suspicion. Each fare he accepts could be his last, but as the Gestapo close in, Henri discovers that courage often hides in the most unassuming souls — and that freedom sometimes fits in the back seat of a battered French cab.








 

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