Un grupo de supervivientes de los campos de concentración nazis se asocian para montar un pequeño negocio de venta de ropa de cama, producto que por lo visto está muy demandado entre los alemanes, quienes además sienten la suficiente culpa como para no cerrar la puerta a un grupo de vendedores judíos. La idea es, por supuesto, reunir el dinero suficiente para irse de Alemania a los Estados Unidos. El simpático grupo, contagiado de la energía y la audacia de David, se pone manos a la obra, estafando a los clientes con la venta de lotes de sábanas “de París”, inventando de paso, para convencerlos, toda una serie de técnicas cínicas y pícaras, y bastante visionarias en términos de marketing.
This bittersweet film was Roman Vávra's feature debut. The film consists of three independent stories, all connected through the motif of a field of grain. In 'Awn' a young couple takes a summer stroll in the country, in 'The Haystack' a gang of boys have an adventure with an older girl, and 'The Journey' recounts the tragicomic homecoming of a pair of aging newlyweds. For only the second time in the nineties Czech star Iva Janzurová appeared on the silver screen.
A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named Baby who causes a local rebellion by bringing rock'n'roll to a Communist neighborhood raised on swing.
En 1945, poco después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de escolares asiste a un colegio del extrarradio de Praga. El mal comportamiento de los niños de esta escuela obliga a incorporar un maestro con experiencia militar, un héroe de la resistencia durante la guerra.
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.
