In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragicová. All his findings - among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a decent amount of money in his bedside table - convince the superintendent that he is following the right lead, especially when Rudi refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder.

A short satire by Ladislav Rychman on "mischief" in the authorities. The successor of the General Di...

Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Fr...
Teens Kate and Big Guy are lifelong best friends. When tragedy causes charming oddball Big Guy to un...

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay...

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...
Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who li...

Cursed since childhood, dentist Charlie Logan cannot find the right woman. Even worse, he learns tha...

While a plague devastates the peasantry, a mad prince hosts a masquerade ball for the noble class in...
Lieutenant Vasátko is spending Christmas vacation in a mountain cabin where a diverse group of peopl...
A certain Mr. Mlácen is brought to the asylum, wanting to sell two church bells. He first offers the...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up s...

From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary a...

Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only o...

For the first time ever, we’ve assembled five shorts about death, loneliness, and dismemberment into...