Commissioner Bartošek is visited by Dr. Goldberg, who reports the disappearance of his friend, the famous actor Benda. From the flimsy evidence, it appears that Benda left his apartment one night without taking anything with him and was taken away by car. He had not gone out for the entire week before, had not washed, had not shaved, and had drunk until he was debauched. The police search has reached a dead end. The actor Lebduška reveals to Goldberg that Benda had an affair with the actress Gréta, the wife of a prominent businessman, Bartošek's classmate Korbel. Goldberg eventually manages to exhume an unknown vagrant, whose body was found shortly after Benda's disappearance...

A 1977 short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman's mental breakdown.

Adapted from the short story " Let's play a game " by the Italian writer Alberto Moravia . It's a st...
A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-tow...
The theme is inspired by the real life stories of Czechoslovak cyclists Jan Vesely and Jan Kubro. It...

The director Ivan Balaďa was not allowed to finish this gloomy, black-and-white parable, inspired by...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when ...

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes bel...

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the...

In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers.

Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until w...

Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultima...

Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get...

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie...
A bricklayer, Jozef Haviar, decides to live with his family on the small farm of his father through ...

A Czech ship's doctor accidentally meets his fellow expatriates on a tropical island. Under his infl...