Věra Křesadlová
Nacimiento : 1944-02-28, Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic]
Self - 2nd Wife (archive footage)
Un conmovedor relato, en sus propias palabras, de la vida personal y la obra del brillante cineasta checo Miloš Forman (1932-2018): su trágica infancia, su gran contribución al movimiento cultural conocido como la Nueva Ola checa, su exilio en París, sus difíciles días en Nueva York, su ascenso al estrellato en Hollywood; toda una vida al servicio del cine.
Romanova matka
Jirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although they went into different fields, their friendship has lasted. Each of the three friends hides a secret, and their lives change radically when the secrets come out. How will the three friends stand up to the tests they are forced to face? Will their friendship survive?
Anna, Karlova matka
Convict
En la ciudad de Kladno, durante los procesos de "rectificación" comunistas de 1950, un peculiar conjunto de personajes represaliados acuden a una fundición para reciclar los restos del antiguo orden y fabricar con ellos nuevos tractores y máquinas.
Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her husband, neighbors and friends - for her own good and for fun.
Nováková
The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva's parents - the granny and grandpa - arrive in the snowy Spindleruv Mlýn for a holiday. They promise to each other that they will not spoil the quite expensive holiday by quarrels. If somebody hurts the other one he/she will kneel as a punishment.
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
Martha
The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.
Věra
Ludvik Jahn, director de un instituto científico, descubre que Helena, una periodista de radio, es la esposa de Pavel, un ex compañero de estudios responsable de su expulsión de la universidad y de las Juventudes Comunistas. Debido a una broma trivial, es obligado a incorporase a un batallón militar de castigo durante dos años y medio, pasar dos años en una prisión militar, y tres años trabajando en las minas. 15 años después, la oportunidad de vengarse parece asomar... El guion de Jaromil Jires y Milan Kundera está basado en la novela de este último, la primera de sus novelas de éxito mundial. Este guion, en donde no dudaron en cortar o cambiar algunas escenas, es considerado como la mejor adaptación de una obra de Kundera. La película se comenzó a rodar en 1967, incluso antes de la aparición del libro, y se terminó de rodar después de la llegada de los tanques soviéticos en 1968.
Zuzana
An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running gags border on slapstick as the officials and the students don't know what to do with the nude models.
Štěpa
Ivan Passer’s film concerns the dreams of two musician friends, one of whom, having left their small hometown to become successful, returns to visit the other who stayed behind to become a local music teacher.
Vladimíra Celbová (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
Ria
The film could have been a lyrical evocation of the ČSSR's first generation: the youngsters born during the war, who grew up in a state violently at pains to find and define itself, and were now ready to break away from the nation-builder ethics of their elders – but Grečner turned it into an anxiety-riddled existentialist vision of a whole globe in fear.
Self (segment "Konkurs")
Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
Crewmember (uncredited)
La tripulación de una nave espacial busca un planeta que esté menos podrido que aquel de donde provienen. Durante su travesía descubren una nave abandonada manejada por cadáveres.