Pavel Wuršer

Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to find a girl with those qualities, so Pista sets out on a journey to find the girl of his dreams without knowing that she is special: an hour a day human and rest of the day a chicken...

1945, dans un petit village morave. Olin, 12 ans, souffre de sa petite taille, des railleries des enfants et d'un père très violent. Il se réfugie dans ses rêveries permanentes. Après le repli des troupes allemandes, on attend l'arrivée des chars de l'Armée Rouge. Les villageois décident d'envoyer les enfants cacher les chevaux dans la forêt, avant leur réquisition. C'est le début d'aventures aux frontières de la folie et de la mort.

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

Une évocation des souvenirs d'enfance de Bohumil Hrabal dans sa ville provinciale de Nymburk, dominée par la brasserie locale.

On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.