A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Urias find themselves in a small Czech town on the eve of the feast of St. Nicholas. And after a series of human and "divine" tests our heroes eventually find that the path to knowledge leads primarily through self discovery through the strength of friendship, love and forgiveness skills.
Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins working on a piece about Bedřich, leading to a job offer from a Party official. Things are looking up, until the wrong people hear portions of the historian's writing.
Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the first superficial glance.
Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small towns and villages.
1943년, 체코의 한 아름답고 평화로운 마을에 사는 조셉과 마리 부부. 행복하기 그지 없는 이들 부부에게 한 가지 아쉬움이 있다면 조셉이 불임이어서 아이가 없다는 것이다. 그러던 어느날, 다비드라는 이름의 유태인 청년이 부부의 빈방으로 숨어들면서 전쟁이 시작된다. 소심한 조셉에겐 감당하기 어려운 사건이었지만, 겁에 질려 큰 눈을 껌벅이는 청년을 외면할 수 없었다. 이제 이들 부부에게는 히틀러 모습의 나치 끄나풀인 호스트가 경계 대상 1호가 된다. 사실 조셉은 눈치를 못 채고 있지만 마리를 짝사랑하던 호스트가 시도 때도 없이 부부의 집을 방문하곤 했던 것. 그를 막지 못하면 유태인 청년과 마을 전체가 학살당할 위험에 처하게 되는데...
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml. (1934)
The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.
