Radek Kuchař

We meet Veronica shortly before her high-school graduation exams. She lives with her mother, an alcoholic, and her mother's partner. One day when he is drunk, he chases Veronica to the roof of a house and falls off, killing himself. He was in debt as he was addicted to gambling. His creditor wants the money back and starts to threaten Veronica. Her mother will not protect her since she is always drunk. Thus, the young girl must leave home and hide far away. On her journey she meets many characters. Some of them are comic, others are rather tragicomic. And Veronica tries to find good people with whom she would feel comfortable and happy, thus giving her life meaning. - Czech film center

Alemania, 1943. Los nazis se proponen eliminar definitivamente a todos los judíos de Berlín. Más de 70.000 ya han sido deportados. En abril de 1943 sale de la estación de Grunewald hacia Auschwitz un tren con 688 judíos. Durante seis días, los pasajeros tendrán que sufrir calor, hambre y sed. En su desesperación, algunos intentan huir; entre ellos, Henry (Gedeon Burkhard), Lea (Lale Yavas) y Ruth (Sibel Kekilli). Pero el tiempo apremia porque Auschwitz está cada vez más cerca.

The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called back to the front and dies. Helga has a daughter, Dorli, as a result of the affair and they have to struggle to survive after the Red Army wins the war.

Jakub, a young, small time drug dealer, wakes up to find the police storming the apartment building while his parents are both away on holiday. After flushing all of his "secret stashes" in the toilet, he finds out they are actually there to investigate the death of the girl upstairs, a close childhood friend of his and the family. He slowly retraces the past week that she has been lying dead in her flat and remembers that he asked her to "receive a package" unbeknownst to her from his drug dealer, Pexeso.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el teniente Thomas Hart, un oficial de buena familia y estudiante de derecho en Yale, es capturado por los alemanes. A los pocos días de ser interrogado, es enviado a un campo de prisioneros. Una vez allí, el coronel estadounidense William McNamara, al mando entre los prisioneros, le pregunta si ha dado información al enemigo. Como Hart lo niega, es expulsado del barracón de los oficiales. Ocurre un crimen, y el oficial nazi a cargo del campo permite a los prisioneros llevar adelante una corte marcial para resolver el caso.

The Emperor of a European country demands new clothes to wear every day, in fact sometimes several times a day. He imposes a heavy tax on the poor citizens to pay for his vanity. An itinerant man and boy come to the capital city and see the injustice, and make friends, but they soon have to flee. They return disguised as Arab tailors, and offer to make the Emperor a new suit of clothes. But only the wise will be able to see it; fools, or those unfit for their public office, will not see anything. The Emperor orders the suit made, and much money is needed to purchase the raw materials. Eventually the suit is ready, and the Emperor and his officials pretend that they can see a wonderful outfit; will anyone prick the bubble of the illusion?

A group of children are helping a good spirits who are living in a cave near school.

In this suspense story, the main character, Johann Neudorff (Gotz George), immigrated to Argentina from Germany after World War Two, and has become a successful businessman there. He is unconcerned with the nature of the government there, which at the time of this film (1978) is a military dictatorship. His comfortable existence is disrupted when he discovers that his beloved daughter Laura (Emilia Mazer) has become the lover of a political activist (Miguel Angel Sola) who is on the military's hit list. When his daughter is kidnapped, Johann attempts to use his government connections to free both her and her lover. However, his son Alfredo (Alex Benn) undermines his efforts, and Johann himself is incarcerated in a military prison, but not before he discovers that his daughter and her lover are both dead, killed by the regime.