Marie Kaplanová

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute again and again but each time the doorkeeper spots him and kicks him out. The youth finally arrives with all his friends and a huge live bear from the circus where he works as an accountant. He is finally allowed in where he explains to the members of the directorate that he wants to work at the Institute, since he graduated in cybernetics and, besides, he has invented a machine for forecasting time of death. When the conniving research manager learns that their director is going to die in two days, he hopes to rise to his position.

Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men and enjoys their company, but there is a limit beyond which she won't go, since she is faithful to her Filip, who is doing his military service. On Sunday the girl awaits Filip to arrive on a short period of leave, but instead his friend Míla (Frantisek Nemec) turns up and apologizes for Filip, who has to stay in the barracks.

Герой фильма Вольфганг фон Хоппе рано остался сиротой и вырос в джунглях среди диких зверей. Уже юношей он попадает в цивилизованный мир, богатый дом своего брата, который заинтересован в признании Вольфганга неполноценным человеком, чтобы окончательно овладеть его наследством. Вначале Вольфгангу, этому современному Тарзану, показалось, что в мире людей царит правда и справедливость. Постепенно он убеждается, что цивилизованный мир, в котором он оказался, ничем не отличается от мира джунглей. И Вольфганг уходит из жизни.

Действие происходит в Словакии после подавления народного восстания 1944 года. Учитель Боднар считает, что сопротивление фашистам бесполезно и поэтому надо притаиться, переждать тяжелые времена. Однако в минуту трагических испытаний скромный учитель жертвует жизнью, спасая своих односельчан.

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is about to become a grandmother dies while her daughter-in-law has not yet given birth.