Frank Argus

Skid-row epic about a lawyer's decline.

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.

Disillusioned with his marriage which has ended in divorce, Petr Leroy goes off to the Riviera to the place where he first met his wife and where he hopes to be spiritually revived. Here he meets his friend Jan and together they enjoy the joys the Riviera has to offer. Jan meets a charming girl at the casino and he takes her off into the mountains. On his return he speaks of the beautiful Olga with whom he has spent a wonderful three days. Olga, however, does not appear for a meeting they had arranged, so Jan goes to look for her in the mountains. Then he sees her in a village and tries to catch up with her in his car. He has an accident. Olga takes him to the nearest sanatorium where everyone behaves very strangely to the newly-arrived patient.