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- The initiation of a young Jewish child into Guernica's world.
- A burglar breaks into a home and is caught by a young boy. The burglar then poses as the boy's uncle in order not to get caught by the parents.
- The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others. Voices that determine and give orders that object and shed judgmental comments, and she begins to feel more and more isolated.
- A film about life in the Czech border area after the expulsion of the Germans.
- A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.
- Juxtaposition of atomic explosions with candid-camera scenes taken in the booking hall of Prague Central Station.
- Young Eva chats with her Yugoslav friend Joca over a glass of wine about everything that connects their countries. Eva's grandmother recalled her sojourns in Dalmatia and her romantic affair with the local Mario for her whole life. Eva soon begins to behave coldly to her Czech friend due to her developing relationship with Joca. The shy dates and first kisses of the young couple are combined with documentary shots of many world politicians and accompanied by a romantic song about sea. Eva's Czech friend then comes to visit her, bringing news that Joca's girlfriend Bojana is coming to Prague. They all meet at Prague Central Railway Station. Bojana is accompanied by her new boyfriend, and the further development of all the confused and intermingled relationships remains unclear.
- The heroine of a motion picture falls from the screen and into the real world.
- A Russian prisoner escapes from the Germans, finding shelter with a Czech farmer and his family. A neighbor betrays them and is sentenced by the villagers.
- Conceived as a fiction with a real-life folk Stráznice Folk Festival as a background, the film-in-progress went astray and director Karel Vachek decided to change his focus.
- Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings.
- The childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal living in his provincial hometown of Nymburk.
- Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much about the concert as about himself, both as a lonely foreigner and as a human being in cosmos. Here and there he encounters some racist comments, but mostly he just feels the weight of social exclusion because of his otherness, especially when it comes to women. On the morning of the day for his concert the embassy informs him that his whole family has perished. He feels totally broken, although he thinks that everyone holds some pain inside. His piano teacher, a professor at the Academy, looks him up, and tells him that he heard what has happened. The professor advises him to communicate his feelings that evening by using his Bach.
- A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.
- A short Czech film which documents a large family and the house they have built by hand.
- A cat belonging to Mr and Mrs K describes the strange behavior of its master and mistress with the help of a fable about a mouse who is heading irrevocably towards a trap. Mr K, a valuer of deceased persons' property, has taken some jewelry and hidden it in his flat. His fear prevents him from selling his cache, however. Just when he is adorning his wife with some of the jewels, Mr B, a curious neighbor, pays them a visit.
- Punk/New Wave music scene in Prague.
- A village teacher and his wife are awaiting the arrival of a new young colleague. The teacher is worried in case he is like his predecessors who were not patriotic and were fond of speaking German. The evening approaches and the young man finally enters the room. The teacher realizes from his first few words that he is a loyal patriot. He also, however, needs to ensure that he is a good musician. The young teacher plays on a few instruments but he prefers the violin. The old teacher is reluctant to lend him his valuable instrument. He, himself, plays the piano. It turns out that the young man is an excellent musician and thus his older colleague is glad to welcome him to the school.