Screenplay: Jan Werich

Direction Aurel Klimt · Vlasta Pospísilová

Plot Czech puppet animated adult film based in some stories by Czech actor and writer Jan Werich.The film is a collection of 5 short tales: When the Leaves Fall from the...

Direction Jan Balej · Aurel Klimt · Bretislav Pojar · Vlasta Pospísilová

Direction Vojtech Jasný

Cast Jirina Bohdalová · Karel Effa · Vlasta Chramostová · Emília Vásáryová

Plot Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can colour people, according to their nature and...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Roger Karl · Charles Dorat · Roger Duchesne

Plot The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Direction Evald Schorm

Cast Jan Werich · Jana Brejchová · Vladimír Klos

Plot Breakfast table quarrel between old King Henry VIII of England and his last wife, Catherine Parr. Their fight starts because of the quality of boiled eggs continues with Henry recalling...

Direction Martin Fric

Cast George Voskovec · Jan Werich · Helena Busová · Josef Skrivan

Plot A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally...

Direction Oldrich Lipský

Cast Rudolf Hrusínsky · Petr Cepek · Josef Somr · Vida Neuwirthová

Plot It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers....

Direction Martin Fric

Cast Jan Werich · Marie Vásová · Natasa Gollová · Bohuš Záhorský

Plot Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, does not have a simple life. And yet he manages to complicate it even more with his frequent outbursts of anger. While he searches...

Direction Kristina Dufková · Vlasta Pospísilová · David Sukup

Plot The film contains three Jan Werich's fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern Bohemia to find out whether Ogres...

Direction Borivoj Zeman

Cast Vlasta Burian · Irena Kacírková · Stella Májová · Milena Dvorská

Plot A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daughters to name the measure of their love for him....