Klabzuba‘s Eleven (1938) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

A family football team rises from amateur play to national glory while confronting commercialization, financial pressure, and divided loyalties.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

A Family Finds Football

Krištof runs an auto business while his sons work beside him. After witnessing a disappointing international match, he decides to form a serious football team.

Key Events

• The Klapzuba Workshop — Krištof runs his workshop and gas station while his eleven sons work there. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: Krištof Klapzuba's auto repair shop and gas station
• Football Debate — Krištof discusses football and his sons with his coaching friend. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: A private room
• The Disguised Match Visit — Krištof takes his sons to watch Italy defeat Czechoslovakia 3–1. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: Letná football stadium
• The Eleven Is Formed — Krištof and his coaching friend form a new team from the brothers. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The Klapzuba home
• Eva Leaves For The Cottage — Eva and her friend leave for a cottage and their car slides off the road. Characters: Eva Bínová Location: A country road

Romance Behind A False Identity

Eva becomes involved in a roadside deception connected with a luxury automobile. The resulting romance is complicated by mistaken identity and investigations into the car's owner.

Key Events

• Eva Leaves For The Cottage — Eva and her friend leave for a cottage and their car slides off the road. Characters: Eva Bínová Location: A country road
• A False Car Repair — Two brothers pretend to repair Eva's car and offer to tow it. Characters: Eva Bínová Location: The roadside
• Cottage Campfire — Eva spends an evening at the cottage while the young men maintain their false identity. Characters: Eva Bínová Location: The Bína cottage
• The License Plate Inquiry — Eva's friend records the car's plate and investigates its ownership. Characters: Eva Bínová Location: Prague
• The Football Registration — Krištof receives notice that his team has entered the third class. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The Klapzuba home

Victory And Growing Pressure

Krištof's team enters organized football and wins repeatedly. Public success grows, but the family's financial problems and transfer offers begin to threaten the team's unity.

Key Events

• The Football Registration — Krištof receives notice that his team has entered the third class. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The Klapzuba home
• A Secret Meeting — Eva is persuaded to meet the young footballer, deepening the identity deception. Characters: Eva Bínová Location: Prague Castle
• The Winning Newspaper Reports — Newspapers celebrate the team's victories, and the household embraces football. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The Klapzuba home
• The National Team Inspection — Football officials visit a training session and praise the team. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The football field
• The Family Business Crisis — Krištof becomes ill while the company faces declining work, debts, and financial pressure. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The Klapzuba home and workshop
• The Team Begins Splitting — The brothers receive transfer offers, threatening the unity of Krištof's team. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: A football club villa

The Team Breaks Apart

Krištof's illness and the failing workshop intensify the crisis. The team nearly dissolves through transfers, but a crucial match reveals that the brothers still respond to their father's authority.

Key Events

• The Team Begins Splitting — The brothers receive transfer offers, threatening the unity of Krištof's team. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: A football club villa
• The Match Comeback — Krištof leaves his sickbed, demands victory, and the team overturns a two-goal deficit. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: A football stadium
• The Rejected Tour Invitation — Krištof rejects an overseas invitation because football has become commercialized. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The Klapzuba home
• The Injured Footballer — During a match, Krištof carries his injured son away to treat him himself. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: A football stadium

Amateurs Become Champions

After an injury and a period of retreat, Eva helps reunite the separated players. Krištof returns to football administration, rebuilds the national side with his sons, and wins the European Cup.

Key Events

• Eva Reunites The Team — Eva brings the separated brothers together at the cottage. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba, Eva Bínová Location: The country cottage
• Krištof Joins The Association — Krištof requests re-amateurization and becomes the association's new captain. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba Location: The football association offices
• European Cup Victory — Krištof's national team wins 2–0, and the Czechoslovak flag rises. Characters: Krištof Klapzuba, Eva Bínová Location: The European Cup final stadium

Story Breakdown

• Workshop Family — Krištof's family and business provide the foundation for the football story.
  • Auto Business — Krištof owns an auto repair shop and gas station where his sons work.
  • Hidden Talent — The sons play informally before receiving a chance to organize as a team.
• Football Awakening — A poor international performance persuades Krištof to take football seriously.
  • Letná Defeat — Krištof watches Czechoslovakia lose 3–1 to Italy.
  • Team Formation — Krištof and his coaching ally create a new eleven.
• Cottage Romance — Eva becomes connected to a deceptive roadside encounter and a mistaken social identity.
  • Roadside Rescue — Eva's car leaves the road and is apparently repaired by passing footballers.
  • Identity Confusion — The luxury automobile causes Eva to believe the young men belong to a wealthy family.
• Public Triumph — The newly formed team wins matches and gains recognition from newspapers and officials.
  • Association Entry — The team is placed in the third class of organized football.
  • Winning Reports — Newspapers regularly celebrate the team's victories.
• Commercial Pressure — Success exposes the conflict between family loyalty, amateur ideals, and professional transfers.
  • Business Debts — Krištof's company has little work, debts, and insufficient money.
  • Player Transfers — Offers from other clubs threaten to divide the brothers.
• Family Crisis — Illness, injury, and the threatened breakup force Krištof to defend the meaning of his team.
  • Sickbed Return — Krištof leaves bed to demand that the team overturn its losing position.
  • Injury Intervention — He carries his injured son away and chooses family care over continuing the match.
• Reunited Players — The separated team is brought together again after retreating from professional football.
  • Cottage Recovery — The injured player recovers at Eva's cottage under Krištof's care.
  • Eva's Initiative — Eva gathers the other brothers and brings them to the cottage.
• National Redemption — Krištof returns to football leadership and restores the amateur team on a national stage.
  • New Association Captain — Krištof becomes captain of the football association.
  • European Cup Win — The rebuilt national team wins the final 2–0.

Directed by

Ladislav Brom

Key Cast

• Theodor Pištěk — Krištof Klapzuba
• Antonie Nedošinská — Kamilka Klapzubová
• Fanda Mrázek — Jarda Klapzuba
• Jan Šebor — Pepík Klapzuba
• Jiří Vondrovič — Standa Klapzuba