Cast: Ilja Prachar

Direction Juraj Herz

Cast Vlasta Chramostová · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Jiří Menzel · Ilja Prachar

Synopsis Karl works at a crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is not just cremating the dead, but liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, he descends into a mania...

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Juraj Kukura · Marta Vancurová · Gustáv Valach · Václav Babka

Direction Vojtech Jasný

Cast Vlastimil Brodsky · Radoslav Brzobohatý · Vladimir Mensik · Waldemar Matuska

Synopsis Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.

Direction Zdenek Podskalský

Cast Jirí Sovák · Vlastimil Brodsky · Jan Libícek · Jirina Bohdalová

Synopsis Skopec, Prouza, Petrtýl are three country plasterers who are working on the renovation of houses in Prague. They are tempted by the Prague night life, but their first visit to the luxury Diplomat Grill doesn't go too well and in...

Direction Zbynek Brynych

Cast Zdenek Stepánek · Ilja Prachar · Jirí Vrstála · Cestmír Randa

Synopsis Teresienstadt is an unusual concentration camp. Conceived as a model camp to be showcased, the inhabitants are forced to participate in a charade to convince an imminent Red Cross delegation that normal life continues in the Ghetto. Regardless, their biggest...

Direction Oldrich Lipský

Cast Milos Kopecký · Iva Janzurová · Vladimir Mensik · Stella Zázvorková

Direction Jaroslav Dudek · Václav Hudecek · Jirí Vanýsek · Zdenek Míka

Cast Vladimir Mensik · Stella Zázvorková · Ludmila Roubíková · Jirí Sovák

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Karel Hermánek · Ivana Chýlková · Jana Sulcová · Anna Tomsová

Direction Petr Schulhoff

Cast Rudolf Hrusínsky · Vladimír Ptácek · Ilja Prachar · Karel Dellapina

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Vlastimir Drbal · Zdenek Dusek · Radka Fiedlerová · Libuse Geprtová

Direction Zbynek Brynych

Cast Josef Cáp · Jaroslava Obermajerová · Vladimir Pucholt · Jirí Wimmer

Synopsis Private Standa Urban is one of a group of disappointed soldiers who had been planning to go on leave from a military airfield. Complications ensue when his love Jana is smuggled into the garrison to see him.

Direction Jirí Krejcík

Cast Iva Janzurová · Vladimir Pucholt · Jan Vostrcil · Frantisek Filipovský

Synopsis A pair of policemen, a young and inexperienced one and older and experienced one, investigate the alleged rape of a young girl by three men. One of the suspects is about to get married.

Direction Arnost Lustig · Antonín Moskalyk

Cast Jirí Adamíra · Jirí Bruder · Lenka Fiserová · Vladimír Hlavatý

Synopsis A group of wealthy American Jewish businessmen have been captured by the SS and are told that they are to be traded to the American army for several SS officers. However, these hostages are being required to pay bribes for...

Direction Zdenek Podskalský

Cast Vlastimil Brodsky · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Milos Kopecký · Irena Kacírková

Synopsis This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is...

Direction Drahomíra Vihanová

Cast Irena Boleslavská · Vladislav Drazdák · Alexandra Haskovcová · Josef Kubícek

Synopsis It's Sunday morning. The church bells call people to the Mass, but the army officer Arnost is still sleeping in his austere and shabby room in the barracks. He wakes slowly, and attunes himself step by step to the world...

Direction Stanislav Strnad

Cast Petr Kostka · Zuzana Stivínová · Rudolf Deyl · Karla Chadimová

Direction Antonín Kachlík

Cast Radoslav Brzobohatý · Jaroslava Vyslouzilová · Oldrich Vykypel · Karel Kabícek

Synopsis The year is 1957. Almost all of the farmers in the Moravian village of Kunovice have joined the Unified Farmers' Cooperative. Joza Jagos (Radoslav Brzobohatý), the best farmer in the village, criticizes the poor management of the cooperative, the disorder,...

Direction Hynek Bocan

Cast Jaromír Hanzlík · Miroslav Machácek · Josef Bláha · Jaroslava Obermajerová

Direction Martin Hollý

Cast Vlado Müller · Josef Bláha · Ilja Prachar · Radovan Lukavský

Synopsis SIGNUM LAUDIS starts at the end of WWI with Corporal Hoferik (Müller) and his squad pinned down in trenches by Russian artillery fire and machine guns. Given the mission to hold the trenches and recently coming into command by way...

Direction Zbynek Brynych

Cast Miroslav Machácek · Olga Scheinpflugová · Zdenka Procházková · Jirí Adamíra

Synopsis Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he's a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. He's old, seems resigned about the fate of the Jews, and even works in the Department of Confiscation of Jewish Property. One day a...