Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous breakdown. Eventually he commits himself to the mental institution where patients are rehabilitated by doing some artwork. He refuses to paint but does some acting. He participates in a play where a lead, playing Oedipus, actually blinds himself. Out of the institution he has dreams of killing his father, but finally seems to be ready to start over again and either act without the state license or take another job.
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
На заре цивилизации, когда Древний Египет еще правил миром, люди любили и боролись за власть также, как и в наши дни. Фараоны уже не так всесильны, как раньше, их казна пуста, а сокровищницы жрецов ломятся от золота.
Любовь и ненависть сжигают сердца юного фараона Рамзеса XIII, бесстрашного воина и пылкого влюбленного. Любовь к двум женщинам не приносит ему счастья. Сын от еврейки Сары не может стать наследником трона, жрица Кама не имеет права на плотскую любовь.
Главная его страсть — ненависть к касте всемогущих жрецов. Он хочет наступить на горло их власти. Но смерть ждет тех, кто пойдет против них. Верховный жрец Херхор готовит двойника Рамзеса для убийства и замены подлинного фараона…