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Dir: Martin Frič

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.

Dir: Martin Frič

After losing his job,Florian goes to Prague to see a girl he recently met.However, as he does not know her name,he accidentally comes to a villa of movie star Elvira.He finds here a love letter and by mistake thinks it is addressed to him.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Hrdina jedné noci perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Martin Frič

Alois Kohout is a high school professor, a despotic family tyrant and a creep before whom everyone trembles in panic terror. And yet there is a man who manages to knock the professor's pride off its perch, restore his family's freedom, and, what's more, take the professor's daughter to a peaceful marital haven.

Dir: Martin Frič

Vojtech's sweetheart Frantina leaves for work in Prague. Vojtech promises his dying mother that he will become a priest. His brother Karel is to inherit the mill. However, he attacks the weak Josífek at the dedication and then flees the village. He hides in a quarry with an unknown vagrant. When a stone is blasted in the quarry, the tramp dies and Karel exchanges his papers for his own.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Poslední muz perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Martin Frič

The old organist unwittingly witnessed the suicide of an unknown man. Before his death, he handed him an envelope with money for his daughter Klara, who lived in the monastery. The organist did not report the case to the authorities, but hid the suicide's corpse in the cellar. Little did he know that he was being followed by his unscrupulous neighbor, a shoe shiner, who then blackmailed him with the threat of a murder charge.

Dir: Martin Frič

A new professor, the shy and impractical Karel Suchý, enters the girls' grammar school. From the very beginning, he becomes the object of the quadruple interest of the girls. In inventing alliterations, he is led by Vera Matysová, the niece of the landlady with whom the young professor lives. The dissolute student bets with the whole class that she will get a kiss from the new teacher.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Páter Vojtech perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Martin Frič

Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.

Dir: Martin Frič

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Varhaník u sv. Víta perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Martin Frič

Lieutenant Patera is unhappily involved in a scandalous affair in the highest circles of the Habsburg monarchy and is transferred to a remote garrison in Mnyuk as a punishment.

Dir: Martin Frič

An unsentimental and yet touching story of a man whose insincere desire for love leads him to fall prey to the profiteering trappings of his neighbor and her daughter.