Bimba – The Story of a Forgotten Painter

This portrait maps the life of phenomenal illustrator of Otakar Batlička and Jaroslav Foglar's adventure stories, the advertising artist and painter Bohumil Konečný /1918 - 1990/, nicknamed Bimba. The documentary contains a number of archive shots of this unjustly-forgotten Czech artist, and covers preparations for retrospective exhibition of his work. Those appearing include his wife Eva, the collectors and curators of the exhibition Jan Hosnedl and František Ulč, historian Jaroslav Čvančara and art historian Tomáš Pospiszyl. It also looks at the case of the stolen comic serial Octobriana.