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The growing conflict between the unruly owner of the villa and his lodger ends up in court. The cohabitation ends in bodily harm - and the film actually translates two versions of the same events, as seen by each of the parties involved. However, the attempt at morality, which proclaimed the necessity of removing the old survivals in people's thinking, did not quite work, and the testimony presented is at times a bit stiff.
A Czech ship's doctor accidentally meets his fellow expatriates on a tropical island. Under his influence, a sympathetic young woman, who has gone abroad with her sickly old father and her selfish and unprincipled husband, decides to return to her homeland...
The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in the 1890s - a time when the poor working classes did not yet have the right to vote or a permanent eight-hour working day.
A story of two old friends, who after ten years - one as the deputy director and the other as the chairman of the party organization - meet on a large construction site.
A young man from a poor proletarian family successfully graduates from university, meets a girl who grew up in an orphanage - and surprises his surroundings, greedy relatives and a friend from a rich bourgeois family, by refusing any benefits. He regularly visits his parents to help them build their house, trying to act honestly at all times.
Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp.
A military film of marital infidelity in which furloughs pose danger not only to the army but also to a soldier's family.
A Nordic tale of human weakness and strength... Young Hjalmar, son of Gunar, lord of the manor, sets out on a long journey to meet the Queen of the North. He wants to find out whether the queen is really as cruel as rumored, demanding a human sacrifice on the longest night of winter. Hjalmar comes to realize that the queen has lost faith in foolish people and has therefore imprisoned Spring in eternal ice. The love of the girl Sigrid awaits him there, but first he must soften the icy and disappointed heart of the Queen of the North. But since he has received three gifts of love, he will surely succeed...
A color puppet film based on the famous ballad of K. J. Erben "Aquarius".
This drama with a criminal plot is a study of the intricately intertwined relationships of four people whose lives have been interrupted by the violent death of a loved one. The story begins almost classically: when a visitor rings the doorbell of a prominent scientist's villa, there is an explosion. The owner is found poisoned by gas in the demolished room. Everything suggests that he committed suicide. But then a major twist comes and the seemingly obvious suicide becomes a well thought out and carefully prepared crime...