This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
Mikyho teta
Юная ведьма Саксана училась в магической школе неприлежно. Вместо вороны могла превратиться в курицу или корову. Загадочная грусть-тоска съедала ее сердце. Папа, летучая мышь, ребенком не занимался, поскольку днем спал. Четырехрукий директор школы ругал ее за неуспеваемость. И просвета в этой жизни не было, пока однажды Саксанко не узнала, что может в виде совы перенестись в мир людей и пожить там полной жизнью 44 часа – все лучше, чем ничего.
Costumed Woman
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.
Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been killed three weeks ago and his body found under a rock. As the investigation continues, another dead boy is found. The boy has bled to death after someone cut his artery with a handsaw. Both deaths are obviously the work of a murderer - a perverted pedophile, sadist who gets sexual satisfaction from the sight of a young boy's blood.
The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (Milos Kopecký) in Italy. He leaves for Italy accompanied by a deputation from Bohemia. On the way the prince's company fights a battle with armed Milanese against heavy odds. Thanks to Charles's perspicacity, the prince's almost naked soldiers win through. In Lucca in Italy Charles joins his father, and here he experiences an amorous adventure and escapes from the traps laid by the Italian rebels.
Стареющий мужчина возвращается к воспоминаниям тридцатилетней давности. Лирическая история о первой любви, смерти и жизненных разочарованиях. Лучший фильм классика чешского кино Отакара Вавры, из снятых им после 1948 года.
В основу фильма положены действительные события, происшедшие в чехословацкой деревне Мокрая Гора в 1948 году.
Цирил и Рудла работали на лесопилке и были друзьями. Цирил руководил бригадой. Рудла занимался общественной работой. Однажды руководство лесопилки и Рудла решили создать в деревне сельскохозяйственный кооператив. Выступавшие открыто против артели были арестованы, и все же в кооператив вступило всего несколько семей, большинство же, несмотря ни на что, отказались. Цирил понимал, что Рудла своими неправильными и поспешными действиями только озлобил крестьян...
