Париж, Вторая мировая война. Французский мим Антуан Моро арестован гестапо. Его вынуждают к постановке детского спектакля в показательном концентрационном лагере. Спектакль должен быть поставлен к визиту Красного Креста, чтобы продемонстрировать хорошие условия жизни в лагере. Поначалу Моро занимается этим без особого энтузиазма. Но со временем он поближе знакомится с людьми, их жизнью в концентрационном лагере. Он понимает, что фашисты используют его в своих интересах. И в результате ставит свою версию детской сказки...
Devil
Латышский мальчуган Спиридитис уходит от злой мачехи искать счастья и попадает в замок Матери Ветров. За свою доброту и готовность помочь, за чуткое, отзывчивое сердце он получает в дар волшебную дудочку, палочку и перстень, которые помогают ему победить Черта, задумавшего взять в жены принцессу Златовласку, спастись от Ведьмы и вернуться и родные края. Пройдя через множество испытаний, Спиридитис понимает, что только на родной земле, рядом с односельчанами, любимой бабушкой и верной подругой Лиените он может быть по-настоящему счастлив.
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.
Dancer
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.
Dancer
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
