Libuše Beranová

The evils of totalitarianism provide the central message of this Czech-French drama. The film is set in a quiet, rural village headed by a suspicious, conspiring group of nasty leaders. Evald has come there to measure water levels. Surrounding the fortress near the village are soldiers

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

Для того, чтобы создать новый, оптимальный вариант "Татр", пригодных для условий Крайнего Севера, в Советский Союз приезжает группа опытных чехословацких инженеров-испытателей. Среди них и веселый, легкомысленный, энергичный Карел Войта. Работа в новых, сложных условиях Тюмени, самоотверженный труд, любовь, закончившаяся трагически — все это заставляет героя по-иному взглянуть на себя. Недооценив природные условия, чешский испытатель Карел Войта растерялся, оказавшись в сложной ситуации. Но ему помогли новые друзья и он обретает любимую девушку.

Blazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of the family. In this difficult situation, she plays this role-game that helps her to deal with the sudden loss of her mother.

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.

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.

Две девушки, обе по имени Мария, решают, что так как мир испорчен, они будут испорчены также. И стараются вести себя как можно хуже. Выходки девушек становятся столь экстравагантными, что пугают их самих.

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify their behavior to the young generation with memories of their heroic war feats. Michal, however, does not want to have anything to do with their problems. He subconsciously perceives the unpleasant atmosphere in the family as well as his father's hypocrisy. After one of many quarrels with his father, he runs away from home, determined to go his own way.

Глубокий психологический анализ одного из представителей поколения молодых энергичных функционеров начала 60-х гг. Рабочий Ярда чувствует себя обманутым: он недоволен тем, куда движется общество.