Jiří Mahen: The Crayfish Princess

A lesser-known fairy tale by Jiří Mahen, The Crayfish Princess. The youngest of the king's sons, a simpleton, a fool who is nothing but a laughing stock. During his long journey, he befriends birds and fish, serves, an old grandmother and a hermit, spends a year alone in a cave in the middle of the rocks and finally tries to grant the sea queen her unusual wishes. Will the man get the princess from the water realm? He says: Ladislav Mrkvička.