Zuzana Schnöblingová

Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describing the story of Zuzana's disappearance.

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from work. Then she darts out, where her girlfriends are already waiting for her.

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.