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.
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder
Organ Player
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Drunk in Pub (voice)
The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy the family's rural estate, kidnap doctors to help heal one of their wounded.
Himself
Keeper
In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs against the rebellious populace.
A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is precisely in their salon in the city that she meets the girl again and learns her history
Malina
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.
A divorced engineer is preparing "accidental" meeting between his eleven years daughter and his fiancé.
Angelika, a ten years old daughter of a spa visitor Bachmann is terribly bored in Karlovy Vary spa. Her father enjoys different spa procedures, trying to lose some weight, but the little girl feels to be only waiting for something to enjoy. Moreover, she cannot speak any Czech unlike her father. Kája, a son of the hotel receptionist Vlasta, attempts to amuse her despite he cannot speak German. Both children make friends although there is the language barrier.
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.
The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. The reformed petty swindler Felix Pacínek (Bohumil Smída) runs the hotel. The business is far from thriving; the place is half-empty, and the jazz band Skeleton, together with their singer Zuzanka (Jaroslava Obermaierová), decide to leave. Nobody in the hotel has any idea that the band is in fact a gang of thieves who have just robbed the Prague State Bank, taking two million crowns from its vaults.
Doležal
Городок Милонице славился своей образцовой школой, где почти все ученики - отличники. Новый учитель Пеликан вскоре убедился, что отличные отметки ставились по указанию директора школы Поганки, которому они были нужны для отчетов и для того, чтобы родители учащихся были довольны. Пеликан решил поломать этот порядок. Он пытается противостоять лжи и лицемерию, настраивая против себя и администрацию, и детей, и их родителей...
dvořan
История про короля, который из трех дочерей предпочел двух: самую красивую и самую веселую, а самую умную, да еще умеющую прекрасно готовить, - выгнал, о чём потом горько пожалел.
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Kotowsky
Фильм основан на известном одноименном рассказе Сватоплука Чеха. Этюд, в котором ростовщик Естржаб приезжает к Грдличке и осматривает его собственность, чтобы решить, стоит ли одолжить ему деньги.
student v hostinci
В конце первой половины 19-го века чешское движение возрождения не было объединено. В то время как старшее поколение, как например Франтишек Палацкий, поощряет сдержанность, студенты склоняются к радикальным мерам. Известие о революционных событиях в Париже заставит пражан записать требования чешской нации к самоопределению и провозглашению конституции. Напряженность достигнет кульминации во время Всеславянского конгресса в Праге. Вена отвергает требования Чехии, и конгресс жестоко разгоняется австрийской полицией. Прага начнет строить баррикады...
