Svatopluk Majer

Mai 1945. En périphérie des gens ordinaires Prague ont accueilli les soldats soviétiques libérateurs avec des larmes de joie dans ses yeux. Dans les premiers jours d'une personne calme se souvient tristement la vie avant la guerre; quelqu'un rencontre inopinément son amour; quelqu'un revient de les chambres de torture de l'ennemi, avec l'espoir de regarder vers l'avenir; et quelqu'un, réensemencement du réservoir dans le tramway tchèque, se souvient avec émotion son motorman artisanale ...

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker solidarity and continue to do his black business. However, the vigilance of a young, aware worker prevents him from doing so.

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

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

Workers from the aviation factory near Prague set up a racing club for young people that will take part in the international sailing competition for Czechoslovakia.

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a marriage of convenience with a smotheringly possessive -- and much older -- woman (Jirina Sejbavola). Hoping to temporarily escape his overbearing wife's clutches, the husband strikes up a friendship with her young ward (Jana Brejchova). The relationship blossoms into a deep abiding love, but the jellyfish husband can't bring himself to declare his ardor to the girl. Even after the death of the wife, the husband hasn't the intestinal fortitude to admit his passion, and the results are bleak indeed for the unfortunate ward. Director Jiri Weiss does a masterful job staging his story of frustration and denial against a backdrop of post-WWI bourgeois banality.