Jitka Smutná

나치 점령 기간에 고문과 투옥 생활을 견뎌내었으나 1950년대 초 체코슬로바키아에서 여성으로서는 유일하게 정치적 재판의 사법 살인 희생자인 변호사이자 정치인 및 여성 권리 운동가였던 밀라다 호라코바에게 영감을 받아 제작된 영화이다. 영화는 도덕적 원칙을 중요시하는 한 여자의 1937년에서 1950년 사이에 관한 이야기이다. 이 사람은 도덕적 원칙을 너무 중요시하여 자기 자신과 가족들을 희생하면서까지 마음보다는 신념을 따랐다. 당시 체코슬로바키아 대통령은 알버트 아인슈타인, 윈스턴 처칠 그리고 엘리너 루스벨트와 같이 저명한 인물들로부터 자비를 베풀라는 요청을 받았지만 결국 밀라다 호라코바는 1950년 6월 27일에 처형되었고 자유와 민주주의를 위한 투쟁의 상징이 되었다.

제 2차 세계대전, 폴란드 바르샤바에서 남편과 함께 동물원을 운영하던 안토니나는 독일의 유대인 학살이 심해지자 그들을 비밀리에 빼내어 동물원에 숨겨주기 시작한다. 사라져가는 동물들, 그 곳에 채워지는 유대인들, 그리고 매일 아침 찾아오는 독일군들. 그녀는 목숨을 위협하는 감시 속에서도 이 특별한 비밀작전을 포기하지 않는데…

삼형제의 맏이로 부모님 대신 동생들을 돌보며 살아가는 소년의 유일한 취미는 병아리를 부화시키는 것이다. 그러나 여우에게 닭이 물려 죽기도 하는 등 계속된 실패로 소년은 매번 좌절을 맛보지만 시간은 흐르고 마침내 부화에 성공하게 된다. 가족의 보살핌이 결핍된 아이들의 사랑에 대한 갈구를 병아리의 부화에 비유하여 은유적으로 잘 표현한 점이 돋보인다. (2015년 제32회 부산국제단편영화제/김영조)

Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.

Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn't experienced much of the "real" life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness.

Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and becomes a male prostitute. He is a bit smarter than his colleagues and teams up with a friend, David, in order to go after bigger scores – to cash in and get out. They manage to stash away a bit of money, but when it comes time to return home, Marek loses his nerve and is soon back in the city.

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.

It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.