Gabriela Globočníková

Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by the road-builders in whose group he worked. The prison doctor knows that Jan is an emotionally deprived person who never knew his parents and spent all his childhood - except one year with foster-parents - in orphanages, homes for youth and reform schools. He arranges a five-day holiday for Jan, who wants to find his mother's grave.

There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...

Valerie acaba de deixar a infância e, mergulhada em seu sombrio mundo de fantasia, inicia as descobertas da vida sexual dos adultos. Na verdade é duro explicar esse belo filme tcheco. Um filme de arte surreal e carregado de simbolismos que podem ter interpretações diferentes dependendo de quem assiste. Valerie vive em um mundo de bruxas e vampiros, e carrega para ele as pessoas de sua vida real. O difícil é distinguir o que é real do imaginado no mundo de Valerie, onde ela pinta tudo a sua volta com suas próprias cores.

When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.