A tram pasted with posters travels through Prague. The mounted loudspeakers invite passers-by to a series of concerts of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpieces. On the tram a party of young people is getting drunk.
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.
A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.
In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home and seldom allows his wife to wear it. A nosy neighbour, Mr. B, drops in. A cat observes it all.
The initiation of a young Jewish child into Guernica's world.
A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.
One day in the life of Mr Hrstka, a blue collar worker and occasional pose model at the Prague academy of arts. Through this portrayal of an outsider, Paskaljevic explores the subject of isolation.
In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.
A color puppet film based on the famous ballad of K. J. Erben "Aquarius".
In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due to the atomic bomb.
A naturalistic video recording of the "accidentally filmed" dialogue of the drunken son Igor with his own phenomenal mother, who, during an unexpected visit, scolds him non-stop for 26 minutes for his student lifestyle.