Film adaptation by Karel Čapek. Lotrando and Zubejda . Practically all Čapek’s popular characters and his gentle humor plus the brilliant combination of the directors Karel Smyczek and Zdeněk Svěrák and the musician Jaroslav Uhlíř created an opportunity for the birth of the popular fairytale Lotrando and Zubejda in 1996. SFDR.