Direction: Ján Kadár

Direction Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos

Cast Josef Kroner · Frantisek Zvarik · Ida Kaminska · Hana Slivkova

Plot Tono Briko (Josef Kroner) is a slothful Czechslovakian carpenter. The time is World War II, and the occupying Nazis are nationalizing all Jewish-owned businesses. To please his ambitious family, Tono...

Direction Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos

Cast Vlado Müller · Jaroslav Blazek · Miroslav Machácek · Milan Jedlicka

Plot Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

Direction Ján Kadár

Cast Yossi Yadin · Len Birman · Marilyn Lightstone · Jeff Lynas

Plot A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.

Direction Ján Kadár

Cast Zero Mostel · Harry Belafonte · Ida Kaminska · Milo O'Shea

Plot Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He...

Direction Ján Kadár

Cast Alan Arkin · Roger E. Mosley · Morgan Woodward · Seamon Glass

Plot A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world...

Direction Ján Kadár

Cast Muhammad Ali · Kris Kristofferson · Ron O'Neal · Edward Herrmann

Plot Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves...

Direction Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos

Cast Jan Kacer · Eva Poláková · Martin Ruzek · Blazena Holisová

Direction Ján Kadár

Cast Bozena Obrová · Július Pántik · Frantisek Dibarbora · Hana Sarvasová

Plot A young village girl defies the wish of her parents and leaves for the city where she seeks work at a newly built factory manufacturing ladies’ pantyhose.

Direction Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos

Cast Rade Markovic · Milena Dravic · Paula Pritchett · Josef Kroner

Plot A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He...

Direction Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos

Cast Vladimír Ráz · Eva Océnasová · Marie Brozová · Jana Dítetová

Plot A mosaic of life stories of the residents of a Prague block of flats at a tram-line terminus. Focusing on members of a small group of ordinary people, each facing...