A charming senior lecturer Kostohryz (Vlastimil Brodský) is an unquestionable star of the Research Institute of the Chemical Factories, admired by men and loved by women. There are two ...
The head of a Prague clinic, Professor Trojan (Karel Höger), lives a quiet life in his flat in the Lesser Town, one of Prague's historical and oldest boroughs. His son Petr (Josef Abrhám) ...
Three short stories. The main characters of the story all gather for a grotesque gloomy funeral. Then their gloom turns into joy again, and the merry party disappears behind a hill.
A mother and her daughter live alone far from human habitation. They are happy. Their harmonious relationship is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a foreigner with his interpreter. ...
Mr. Lenz (Karel Höger), a German university professor escaped the country for Switzerland after the Nazis got to power. He settled in Zurich, established a books-and-paintings store, and ...
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse...
A man returns home after years in a nazi prison, where he was subjected to cruel experiments. Although physically and psychologically damaged, he manages to recover faith in life after meeting a woman scientist.