Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the investigation, noting that the killer struck Eva fatally and shattered her large aquarium, yet carefully transferred the goldfish into a smaller tank. Initial...
A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed secret of the altarpiece...
Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka in Prague. Based on the principle of dreams and free association, segments unfold that deal with the various points of view that Kafka's work,...
Let's venture into the dark forests, where a father and his son Petr are wandering. They are returning from the city, where they earn extra money by playing music. This time, however, they cannot find their way home. Their only salvation is a light that appears in the distance. It leads them to a...
This fairy tale tells the story of the domineering and envious Meluzína, who wants to steal her younger sister's fiancé. But even with the help of a witch, she fails to achieve her goal, although her fiancé faces a difficult test of separation. He passes the test, and to this day, Meluzína...
Serving a miserly farmer would be unbearable if Janos didn't have such a pretty and sweet daughter. He had fallen in love with her, and she would have wanted him for a husband, but her father was planning a rich groom for her. It was a good thing that Janos had such a faithful and clever friend,...
In the story of two generations searching for a fixed point in their lives, the film offers a reflection on the possibilities of escaping the reality of place, time and human responsibility. In a narrative between fiction and documentary, the past and the present are intertwined, and events both...