The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her to compensate for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is suffering. The same goes for young Bořík, a gifted pianist who finds it difficult to give up his dreams of an artistic career...

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with ...

The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slo...

A young maid enlists supernatural help in order to escape her past.
Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspecti...

It's 1975, and John Dykstra, a lowly college professor, with not much confidence but a semi-successf...

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...

Helga Suotorppa has given birth to an illegitimate child while working as a maid. Inkeri, the kind-h...

A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the sto...

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchm...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, a...

Matys is an outsider who moved from Ukraine to Czechia with his sister in search of a better life. I...

In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, Will...

In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide...

A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang o...