May was filmed as a backdrop to part of a theatre performance D36-D37 under the E. F. Burian's lead inspired by the classic Czech poem of the same name by Karel Hynek Macha.

Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

The time-tested poem, more than a century old, transposed into a stirring story of undying love and passion. The story takes place in an unspecified, distant past, but the young heroes are more or less contemporary characters.

A poet find inspiration in nature and solitude.

A Venetian gondolier looks for his beloved, who a Czech count had taken away and then rejected.Meanwhile the gondolier finds a boy among a group of gypsies in Bohemia and the two become wandering musicians.