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- Partially dramatized documentary retelling of the life of philosopher Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, who led newly-created Czechoslovakia after WWI, with hinted parallels to the end of Communist rule occurring at the time of the film.
- The series is the continuation of the series Die Märchenbraut.
- Young English gentleman falls in love with beautiful Czech vampire.
- A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named Baby (Martin Dejdar) who causes a local rebellion by bringing rock'n'roll to a Communist neighborhood raised on swing.
- The filmed fairy-tale is a comedy based on the classical story about Reason and Happiness. This enchanting couple is ever debating on which of the two is more important for mankind, their encounters are watched by the third fairy-tale figure aunt Envy. A story of true love that wins over the evil powers of immortal human envy.
- The Duncan family is beside itself when son Sylvester turns himself into a rock to escape the jaws of a hungry lion.
- The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, horror and other parallel episodes into, what is called, decadent reading for maids. It takes you through the history of the cinema, from silent films, to the beginning of sound and up to the very present.
- The Boys' Club of The Rapid Arrows discover that something is happening in the dark quarter of the Shadow District. An old churchman tells them the story of Jan Tleskac, an orphaned locksmith apprentice who was also the bell-ringer at St. James Church in the Shadows. There he also died in mysterious circumstances by falling from the belfry. The boys undertake a dangerous expedition into enemy territory. In the bell tower they find Tleskac's diary, in which the boy writes about an invention of his. He has hidden his plans in a metal puzzle called Hedgehog in a Cage. The instructions for freeing the hedgehog from the cage are detailed in the diary. But where the puzzle is located is something The Rapid Arrows have yet to discover. It's not easy: the Shadow District is ruled by the tough boy gang, the Vonts.
- The story of the film is based on the classical tale about seven naughty sons, whom their mother cursed in anger and thus turned into ravens. When their youngest sister grew up, she decides to find her brothers and to free them. However, she falls in love with a young Prince.
- The story about events during the First World War. The wife of an officer of the Austrian army decides to surprise her husband and to visit him in his unit at Christmas time. She is disappointed to find only a cruel soldier. Fate makes her be present at the time when he is suffering from pain and slowly dying. She asks a therapeutic, a prisoner in a near-by camp, to rid her husband of his pain.
- The fourth part of Dusan Klein's comedy cycle, following its hero Stepán Safránek (Pavel Kríz) from his senior year in high school through medical school and his first year of medical practice to his post-Velvet Revolution experiences with the dawning era of the businessman. This ironic young man finds it difficult to make a start but eventually gains strength from his relationship with a determined female pharmacist (Tereza Brodská).
- Jindrich Polák's modern fairy tale comedy tells the story of a girl who unexpectedly inherits a fairground amusement - a haunted house from Vienna's Prater fun park. With the help of a magic timepiece she is able to bring three of the ghosts to life. Followed directly by Kacenka a zase ta strasidla (1993).
- In this direct follow-up to a fairy tale comedy Kacenka a strasidla (1993), the supernatural beings try to prevent their house of horrors from being reconstructed into an attractive villa. They count on the arrival of a Viennese notary who is to verify whether the fun park amusement is fulfilling its original purpose. After it's all been resolved, Kacenka's uncle puts on a bit of amateur theatricals in which the ghosts themselves humorously participate.
- A film version of a novel by Jaroslav Havlícek, one of the leading representatives of Czech psychological prose. The film is a romantic story set in a small South-Bohemian town at the end of the last century, where an impressionable adolescent boy Enil (Jakub Marek)falls in love for the first time - and then into depths of despair.
- A documentary about Baroness Le Murie who contemplates her lonely life and the dilapidated castle she lives in.
- TV weekly about actual movie first runs.
- A young man, recently returned from the Army goes to Florida with his wife. His wife has a telephone conversation with her mother during which the mother speaks about the young man.