Svatopluk Malý

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.

BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him. LUNCH: After failing to catch the waiter's eye, two would-be diners end up eating everything within reach. DINNER: Portraits of various meals made up of human organs.

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in order to understand the film, which is entirely visual.

The last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables.

The story takes place entirely on a kitchen counter and sees two slices of raw meat as protagonists. The first slice is courted by the second and together they dance to the notes of a recording from the 1920s broadcast on the radio, after which the two slices find themselves playing and flirting on a plate full of flour, but the passion is abruptly interrupted by two skewers who fork the two slices and fry them in a pan.

앨리스(크리스티나 코호토바 분)는 진열장을 깨고 나온 흰 토끼를 쫓아 가다가 지하 세계로 떨어진다. 앨리스가 도착한 이상한 나라에는 요상한 캐릭터들이 즐비하다. 흰 토끼는 뜯어진 가슴팍 사이로 손을 집어 넣어 몸에서 톱밥이 묻은 시계를 끄집어내는 박제이고, 애벌레는 핏발이 선 의안과 의치로 무장한 낡은 양말이다. 3월 토끼는 다 낡아서 눈이 떨어져 가는 인형이며, 도어 마우스는 살아 움직이는 여우 목도리다. 미친 모자 장수는 목제인형이고, 카드에서 방금 나온 듯한 하트여왕은 무엇이든 보이기만 하면 목을 잘라낸다. 얀 슈반크마예르의 첫 장편 애니메이션. 루이스 캐롤의 동화 속 어린 앨리스의 이야기에서 영감을 얻었다.

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision...

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands. Finally, Frank asks Josef how he manages to keep the fence together..

A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.

Two magicians, Mr.Schwarzwald and Mr.Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.

The Faust legend retold with marionettes.

German-Czech "Kulturfilm".