Oldřich Vlček

At the beginning of this detective story, the body of Martin Horák, owner of a car repair shop, is found in a bathtub. The police eventually close the case as a suicide. However, detective Pavel Vondra is not convinced and begins to unravel the threads of this initially seemingly clear case of an accident...

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Who is this confident man who, with unusual elegance and surprising professionalism, began working at the reception desks of the highest government and party leaders one day? Where did he come from, what are his tasks, and who entrusted him with them? These questions will be pondered in the film by members of the secret services, important and insignificant minions of the powerful, who are convinced that they know every link in the ingeniously opaque chain of relationships and competences of a centrally controlled state. Before the surprising revelation of the mysterious master of ceremonies living a double life, he manages to pull off one last stunt: a monstrous hoax whose consequences can only be tragic.

Live concert from the Rudolfinum with accompanying verbal poetic characteristics between movements.

A remote cottage becomes the scene of a thrilling drama: two criminals who have robbed a car transporting payroll money break into the weekend home. They capture the residents and hold them hostage to protect themselves from the encroaching police siege. However, director Dušan Trančík is more interested in portraying social ills, especially ruthlessness and petty bourgeoisie, than in telling a thrilling crime story involving a double murder.

A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend.

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.

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Three detective stories from industrial Ostrava. Police search in vain for a missing 16-year-old girl, but succeed in finding a mentally disturbed infant kidnapper. In a case of robbery, at the cost of injuring one of the investigators, they manage to apprehend a lover fleeing with stolen money across the border to Poland...

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills another woman. In "Hostages", a drug addict, Chaban, terrorizes the hospital's operating team, but the disciplined doctors handle the difficult situation. In "The Pickpocket", the thief Benda wants to return to his trade immediately after his release, but his attempt ends tragically.