Václav Vodák

Amos es marinero y propietario de un barco. Espera impaciente la llegada de un tío suyo que, desde la guerra civil (1936-1939), ha vivido exiliado en la Unión Soviética. No tienen tiempo de conocerse porque inesperadamente el anciano muere. Amos sabe, por las cartas que recibía su madre, que su tío guardaba algo muy valioso, pero no lo encuentra en el equipaje de su pariente.

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.

The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.

Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his abilities at work have been rewarded with the medal For Outstanding Work. But a few short seconds are enough to change his life when he makes the ill-judged decision to take his car to bring a friend's wife to the celebration, and hits a pedestrian on the way. He has of course been drinking at the party and is consequently sentenced to sixteen months in prison. Being in jail is not an easy thing for a honorable communist. He soon gets into conflict with several violent inmates, who think they can break his spirit by violence.

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.

In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.

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.

El señor Karel domina a sus familiares, amigos y empleados. Sólo está preocupado porque el tránsito de los difuntos hacia el más allá sea lo más limpio y rápido posible, todo mediante la incineración de cadáveres en el cementerio que regenta. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un sacristán que gusta de vestir como cura es invitado, por uno de los habitantes del pueblo, a ser pastor en una iglesia sin párroco. Un profesor ateo se molesta con él y trata de avergonzarlo de varias formas, incluyendo ser atrapado con la belleza local, Majka. (FILMAFFINITY)

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...

A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.

Película compuesta por tres episodios que representan varios aspectos del amor: la tentación, los sueños y la aventura. (FILMAFFINITY)

Jan Nemec lleva a cabo una crítica contra el conformismo, la política de masas, el cuestionamiento de la libertad del individuo y las relaciones de patronazgo-clientela en un film que trata de explicar de modo alegórico cómo fue posible la implantación del comunismo en Checoslovaquia. Su carácter subversivo fue la causa de que fuera prohibida hasta la Revolución de Terciopelo de 1989. Fue un poderoso acicate durante las movilizaciones de la Primavera de Praga en 1968. (FILMAFFINITY) Tu crítica Puedes escribir una crítica