O quarto projeto de longa-metragem de Dusan Hanak foi na verdade filmado em 1980, devido aos censores comunistas, no entanto, o público levantou-se em 1989. Os principais protagonistas da narrativa são três empregados ferroviários, que são apanhadas entre as encomendas postais num triângulo relacional peculiar. Feio e pequeno, Pista ama em vão Viera, que, no entanto, se apaixonou pelo seu companheiro Vinca.
Tailor
When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as a beggar, so he can teach her lessons about humility and compassion.
After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody believed that Juraj died in America because Polana stopped receiving money from him already two years ago. Polana's farm was prospering first of all thanks to the young stable boy Stepán (Sándor Oszter). Men in the pub first indicate and then say to Juraj directly that Polana has been unfaithful to him with Stepán.
A story about three young boys who are best friends and together are trying to fight a poacher in the forest close to their village.
Secret Agent
A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.
Feldwebel
Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village.
Melech
A Slovak comedy from director Štefan Uher and screenwriter Alfonz Bednár.
A classical ballad motif about an aging father and his three daughters is quite unusually here set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia of the 1950s. After having been expropriated, the former landowner Majda seeks refuge with his three daughters whom he had sent to a convent a long time ago. But only the youngest one is able to forgive him and she is willing to take care of him despite the threat of expulsion from the order.
Taxi Driver
Drama about the rebellion of the Trencín Infantry Regiment against its superior officers in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, at the end of the First World War. It was the biggest and deadliest rebellion in the Austro-Hungarian army.
