Cinematography: Josef Strecha

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Zdenek Bezusek · Karel Blazek · Miroslav Cvrk · Vera Kresadlová

Plot A young Prague cellist (Zdnek Bazusek) and his sophisticated girlfriend (Vera Kresadlova) visit some friends in a bucolic village. The cellist has also been engaged to solo with the town's...

Direction Vladimír Slavínský

Cast Sona Cervená · Josef Chvalina · Karel Effa · Eman Fiala

Plot A wealthy antique dealer rules his family with iron discipline and believes in doing things the old fashioned way, without regard for his family's own views or feelings. However, the...

Direction Alfréd Radok

Cast Blanka Waleská · Otomar Krejca · Viktor Ocáse · Zdenka Baldová

Plot Hana is a Jewish eye doctor who falls in love and marries a Gentile named Toník. Their simple love story becomes a nightmare when the government begins the systematized extermination...

Direction Vladimír Slavínský

Cast Vlasta Burian · Vera Ferbasová · Raoul Schránil · Antonín Streit

Direction Jirí Weiss

Cast Daniela Smutná · Ladislav Chudík · Oleg Strizhenov · Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

Plot In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian...

Direction Jirí Krejcík

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

Plot 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...

Direction Vladimír Cech

Cast Karel Höger · Josef Bek · Oldrich Nový · Bohumil Smída

Plot An investigation into counterfeit medicine leads the detectives -Tůma (Karel Höger) and Líbal (Josef Bek)-to Karlovy Vary. Kraus (Oldřich Nový), as hotel manager, is a man with a weakness for...

Direction Josef Mach

Cast Jaroslav Marvan · Frantisek Filipovský · Eduard Linkers · Jana Dítetová

Direction Stanislav Strnad

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

Direction Vladimír Slavínský

Cast Otomar Korbelár · Lenka Podhájská · Marie Brozová · Miroslav Homola

Plot Examining magistrate Kilián (Otomar Korbelár) is suspended because he allegedly enabled his friend Rynes (Miroslav Homola) to commit suicide in prison. The unfortunate Kilián under the name Kypr finds a...

Direction Miroslav Hubácek · Oldrich Lipský

Cast Frantisek Smolík · Ruzena Slemrová · Jaroslav Vojta · Josef Kemr