babička Nováková
Short Comedy skits of popular jokes. A continuation of the first movie.
babička Nováková
Risque jokes acted out in short skits.
Matylda Chladilová
Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), que vive na zona rural Checa, está a tentar organizar planos de enterro de seu marido a perecer, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). Enquanto Matylda espera ter um funeral para Janna pequena cidade onde eles viviam, há complicações. Anos antes, Jan falou contra o governo comunista e, consequentemente, foi expulso da cidade. Quando Matylda não consegue convencer um político local para permitir a cerimónia, ela usa o funeral de seu marido como uma demonstração pública de dissidência.
Celerka
A stories about friendship and love, children and parents, students and teachers - all from one regular Czech school during the eighties.
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all his wishes.
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.
Ema Meluzinová
Um divorciado médico de meia-idade (Rudolf Hrusinsky) estabelece prática em uma pequena cidade. Aos poucos, ele é atraído para a vida de seus pacientes - um casal sem filhos, uma menina grávida com uma mãe severa e o filho de um agricultor - e cada relacionamento revela um pouco mais sobre ele e sobre a comunidade em que vive... OU... No saguão do terminal do aeroporto, marido e mulher, estão se separando calmamente mas, aparentemente, para sempre. Ao contrário da mulher Ema, o médico Meluzin ( Rudolf Hrusínský ) regressa ao seu país. Ele se tornou médico distrital em uma área que o lembra de sua infância. Ele ganha um quarto, no centro de saúde, ao lado do apartamento de um casal de Kodet, sem filhos. O presidente do Comitê Nacional Local, Vlach (Josef Somr), não consegue parar de se perguntar por que Meluzin deixou sua posição de prestígio em sua antiga clínica mas com o tempo, o médico atencioso ganha sua confiança e a de seus pacientes.
(segment "Reprezentant")
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
The title "All My Good Countrymen" is not without irony as this epic tale of Czech village life from shortly after the end of the Second World War concentrates on the activities of a group of friends who are not beyond reproach in siding with a politically corrupt regime for material advancement. Are these the "good countrymen" of the title or does it refer to the rest of the village who scorn these petty authority figure with silent contempt?
Maria
Based on a novel by Maria Majerova, this well-photographed but routine romantic drama is directed and co-scripted by Vaclav Krska. Set in a more old-fashioned time, the story centers around Lenka (Suzana Fisarskova), a young woman with a domineering, psychologically abusive father. When Lenka falls in love she suffers the ultimate injustice when her father and her family forbid her to marry the man. They see no advantage in such a union and want her to marry a wealthy local landowner instead, for obvious reasons. But Lenka is not as submissive as they think and she runs away to the city to look for the man she loves -- only to find a serious problem, though a surmountable one, is waiting for her.
