Marie Buddeusová

The bickering of envious mistresses, the criminal intentions of fraudsters and the love of two young people are at the center of events, in the middle of which unfolds the fate of the city executioner Jiří, who longs to break free from his destiny and become a proper burgher. He is not heard, but he manages to expose the iniquities and their culprits, reunites a hard-pressed couple in love and his undeniable merits for the city and eventually bring him luck.

Europe centrale, années 1930: le médecin tchèque Bartos s'occupe avec dévouement des patients pauvres de la banlieue de la ville, tout en recherchant les possibilités de régénération des tissus humains après transplantation. Son ancien collègue Rosen, qui travaille maintenant comme assistant à la clinique privée du chirurgien Kirchenbruch, considère cette recherche comme une simple utopie. Bartos, déçu et essayant de vérifier ses théories, accepte donc la proposition scandaleuse de Marion, propriétaire d'un bordel, de remplacer chirurgicalement le visage de son amant, le voleur recherché Cutter, avec le visage du Père Hopsasa.

Marriage to a despotic man is unbearable for Liliana Garson. After a violent argument with Garson, she leaves jewelry, a wedding ring, and a letter announcing her departure in the drawer of her husband's desk intending to run away with Hugo Paton with whom she is in love. But Hugo is killed in a car accident and feeling helpless Liliana returns home but she is offered a ray of hope from an unexpected source. Polish language version of the 1929 Ruth Chatterton vehicle "The Doctor's Secret".

Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emča and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and youth. A visit from an old friend Lebeda brings it all back to him. After a nervous breakdown Leopold secretly visits his home instead of going to the spa. A wandering tramp suggest Leopold should bathe in the magical waters of the Sázava, and slowly his youth returns to him.