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- A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
- A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
- The friends enjoy the charms of nature - and of their guests.
- The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C (Jan Kacer) has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice (Kveta Fialová). He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka (Jirí Sovák) as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
- Visits by women are strictly prohibited in Ms Mossie's English pension for bachelors. Nevertheless, some of the younger tenants cannot resist the temptation and sometimes try to sneak a young lady to their room. The landlady, however, stands guard all night in the lodge, which becomes fatal to O'Brien - he is caught, the lady thrown out, and he himself receives immediate notice. Bernard Mulligan (Josef Abrhám), however, is better off, managing to get his Andela (Iva Janzurová) both to his room and to his bed. But morning is coming and Halibut (Jirí Hrzán), Mulligan's roommate, is soon to return home from a ball. Mulligan does his best to wake the girl up and get her out. The sleepy Andela, however, instantly grasps that all her lover's tenderness is gone, and begins to torture him maliciously.
- The father of fourteen-year old Natasa is the chairman of the housing department at the Municipal National Committee. His position is probably the cause of the high living standard of his family. Natasa has everything, even a box in the local theatre, but despite all this she is still unhappy. Her parents are never able to find time for her and the group of four of her girl-classmates, to which Natasa would like to belong, envy her and misuse her. Natasa meets a boy named Petr and is going to have her first date with him. But the girls, aware of her date, lock her in the school cloakroom and hypocritically offer themselves to carry a letter of explanation to Petr. But, instead of Natasa's apologies, they write and deliver another letter in which the girl is shamelessly offering herself to him.
- Exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek (Rudolf Hrusínský) lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska (Slávka Budínová) brings up their three children and desperately tries to get by on her husband's low salary every month. At the same time, she sadly watches the luxurious life of their neighbor and other people like him who have no qualms about improving their standard of living by cheating. One day, infallible Safránek makes a mistake in the cash clearance and there are nine 100-Crown bills left in the safe. An unexpected company control carried out the next day passes without problems and the account is closed. The temptation is too strong. The insufficient control enables Safránek to gradually steal one million Crowns.
- A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.
- Mr Benda (Jozef Kroner), a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes - the so-called "annihilator". He likes to booze and usually does not remember anything the next day. After one drunken party, he is visited by a painter who tattooed his back in drunkenness the previous night. The painter soon dies and becomes famous after his death, be-questing all his work to a gallery. The image tattooed on Benda's back is considered the painter's best work by the professionals, and Benda thus becomes the possession of the gallery.
- Fifteen-year-old Jirina is spending her summer holiday with her father at the family cottage. The father has to go to Prague on business and, after few moments of hesitation, he decides to leave Jirina alone in the cottage. The holiday by the river is pleasant and the gang of children to which Jirina belongs enjoys it duly. Jirina is wooed by Roman, but she is more interested in Franta from the opposite bank of the river. Franta invites the girl to his cottage, but when the more experienced youth wants to kiss her, Jirina runs away. She at the same time finds out to her sorrow that Franta is still dating his love from last year's holidays, Bláza.
- Children who were smoking are suspected of setting fire to a wooden warehouse, and little Sasha is among those under investigation. Because he is afraid to return home, he runs away together with an older teenager.
- Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from work. Then she darts out, where her girlfriends are already waiting for her.
- Sixteen-year old Bobina Gromová (Zuzana Ondrouchová) surrenders to the charms of a blue-eyed youth she meets at a dance and loses her virginity with him that same night. Only then do they introduce themselves and learn each other's names. Their courtship is short-lived, the next day the assembler Pepík Bajcura leaves for Algeria to work on construction. After a while, a postcard of three camels arrives from him, with a short greeting. The letter that the pregnant Bobina writes to him is returned with a note that the addressee has died in an accident. The girl's mother Bozena (Slávka Budínová) is single, just like her grandmother and great grandmother. This is why Bozena decides to resolve her daughter's "problem" with an abortion.
- Story about the happy events of two village boys and their Soviet friend.
- Forty-year old Cenda (Vladimír Mensík) is a confirmed bachelor. He shares a flat with his mentally ill mother (Marie Rosulková) and their morose lodger Martin (Jaroslav Marvan), an actor. His mother's illness started years ago, after her husband died suddenly, and now her son looks after her with great care. The quiet and withdrawn man works in the basement storage room of a large printing works in the center of Prague. To his irritation, he is the center of attention among the unmarried women at work. One day his mother dies. Cenda is all alone now and doesn't know what to do with this new freedom.