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- The year is 1917, the third year of the World War. Many people are stricken with poverty and hunger. Karel, the eldest son of the bricklayer Svetlan has been called up to the front and his mother exchanges his coat for a bag of rotting potatoes to help feed her two younger sons - Rudla and Ládík. Her boys are playing with four other children from their Plzen suburb on an army training ground. They try to make soup out of a deadly wounded crow they have found, but they first have to wrestle the bird from a competing group from Skvrnany. They make a solemn promise on the crow's feather and become a gang.
- The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling mill, the master craftsman Mares is preparing for retirement, which is now only two days away. Elderly Simon who grows and sells vegetables at the market has problems with his wife. Their little home has to give way to a new development but the wife Simonka refuses to move out. The chairman of the workers'council has troubles with the miner Adam, who has started drinking. He doesn't know that Adam is getting divorced and fears he may lose his young son to his wife.
- It is the spring of 1945 and the end of the war is approaching. The twelve-year-old Milda Mráz, the son of a poor cobbler Mráz from Neprejov, still believes a little in miracles. That is why he drags everywhere his white she-goat Bruna which may one day change into a long-desired white horse. Even the promise of the miserly neighbor Petrus that after the war he will arrange a banquet for all the people stands for the evidence of the existence of miracles. Pavel Mácha, who escaped some time ago from forced labor in Nazi Germany, ends hiding and, what is more, his love Vlasta is with child. The villagers, encouraged by news of Prague uprising, are building the triumphal arch to welcome the Red Army. But Pavel is brought home dead in a hay-wagon, after he and other youths wanted to capture arms.
- An ambulance is taking a patient from a large half-built housing estate to the resuscitation unit. Foreman Frantisek Pelant has had a heart attack right on the work site. The young crane-operator Hedvika, until recently his girlfriend, carries on Frantisek's efforts to deal with irregularities in the running of the building works and in the factory supplying the prefabricated components. She persuades the veteran communist Zábrana to help her and together they initiate negotiations in the highest organs of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
- Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his abilities at work have been rewarded with the medal For Outstanding Work. But a few short seconds are enough to change his life when he makes the ill-judged decision to take his car to bring a friend's wife to the celebration, and hits a pedestrian on the way. He has of course been drinking at the party and is consequently sentenced to sixteen months in prison. Being in jail is not an easy thing for a honorable communist. He soon gets into conflict with several violent inmates, who think they can break his spirit by violence.
- The bridegroom Jan Kaspar is an officer in the Klement Gottwald's Nová Hut rolling-mill. After bidding farewell to his freedom, he accidentally takes a sip from the bottle of tetrachlore which he stores at home. He disregards the dizziness, but the next day, he faints in the factory and has a brain concussion. During her regular tests, doctor Dudková is shocked by a high percentage of residual nitrogen found in Kaspar's blood. Doctor Bohácek, with whom Dudková consults, thinks that it is a liver disease and informs the head physician Filip. The doctors know nothing about tetrachlore and are in the dark about the case. Despite that, they immediately start to fight for Kaspar's life and their struggle consequently affects their personal lives.
- Marie Vlácilová (Jirina Sejbalová) is fifty-six years old. She lost her husband in the Second World War, herself having spent several years in the concentration camp, and her only child, little Pavla, was placed in a German family for re-education. After the war, Pavla (Karla Chadimová) is found and returned to the native mother but is not able to have a warm relation to her any more. When she is seventeen, she leaves for Berlin on an excursion organized by the youth movement and does not return. Since then, Vlácilová has lived alone. One day, she is asked by the Czechoslovak authorities to go to Germany to give testimony in the trial of a war criminal.
- The police investigates the circumstances of death of Tereza Kabátová (Marie Drahokoupilová) who was found in a crashed car. Her husband Frantisek Kabát (Zdenek Hradilák), director of Stavoprojekt, enjoys confidence of the workers, in addition, he comes from the workers family. He is also favored by his secretary Eva Martincová (Karolína Slunécková).
- Tereza (Jana Gýrová) lives alone with her young son Michal. With him and her former husband Slávek (Petr Cepek), she visits Slávek's mother, from whom they are hiding their divorce. Tereza is not happy about the arrangement, but she still loves Slávek and cannot refuse him the favor.
- Jirka Hudecek (Alexei Okunev) wins a car race and receives congratulations from his friends. Here the dream ends, and the young man realizes that he is facing a court trial together with other members of his gang of thieves. Jirka is the only one to be put on probation; the others - including Rosmery (Marta Raslová), Jirka's secret love - go to jail. Jirka's parents have never taken much care of him. His father (Josef Langmiler) slaps him in the face on leaving the court hall, but Jirka immediately hits back. The young man starts to work in a quarry, keeping to dream about a car racing career. He irritates his co-workers by his rebellious views, cynicism, and even by his long hair.
- Tereza (Eva Trejtnarová), a high-spirited and ambitious country girl is discontented with her subservient position as a maid and quits her job with the haughty countess. She meets the dragoon lieutenant Egon (Pavel Trávnícek) at a garden party. He is stationed in Klatovy, where Tereza has an aunt. At a fair the two young people meet again. Egon gets into a duel with a drunken colleague because of Tereza. Tereza attends to the wounded Egon's injuries and the two become lovers. The girl stays with her aunt and helps the aunt do laundry for the officers. She secretly continues meeting Egon and naively believes he will marry her. She sobers up from her romantic passion after the lieutenant arranges to get transferred to another place.
- Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she decides to tell the truth. After her father's death she, by herself, takes care of her younger brother called Pinda. She does not like the influence that a gang of older boys from the factory exercise over her brother. The gang leader Jirka, called King, is admire by local girls whose number exceeds boys in the town because there are many textile factories where only girls are working. They easily yield to him and then he easily gets rid of them. Jana is a hard nut for him. She refuses his purposeful courtesy and thus she unintentionally gets his attention. King inspires the gang on how to get money by stealing textile from the factory warehouse.
- The parents have no time for little Mísa, so he befriends an old, lonely man, the owner of a mysterious shed, which hides many tempting and surprising attractions, treasures and trinkets.
- Engineer Jan Ondrák (Radoslav Brzobohatý) is a hard-working and tenacious man. His work means everything to him and he devotes all his time to it. His colleagues respect him as an expert but they don't really like him because of his strict and uncompromising ways. Ondrák also teaches at the faculty, where his reputation is the same as at the factory. One evening, he meets some friends of his son Petr (David Prachar) and suddenly becomes aware of the enormous barrier that has grown up between him and the young generation.
- The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.
- Two criminals managed to escape from jail - Daman and Kejchal, nicknamed the Snow White. The Snow White kills a forest worker in a lonely caravan. On their way to the border state crossing they get near a sports stadium, at which some people prepare a rock concert. The police wants to ban the concert, but they cannot resist the fans of the rock band Bumerang and its singer Petra Janu. The fugitives see a chance to hide in the crowd of fans, pushing their way through to the stadium.
- Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in the creation of a new synthetic material. Before introducing it into production, however, he wants to get purification equipment installed to prevent the countryside around the town, already suffering from pollution, from being devastated any more. Bernát is just completing a burner for this purpose. Placek's own solution would require another year of development while the management is pressing production to commence as soon as possible. The two previously amicable chemists are now on opposite sides.
- The Second World War. Dogs are being trained for guard duty in the Nordfelsen training center. Concentration camp prisoners are used as targets for attack, and are forced to provoke the dogs and get them to feel hatred for the striped prison uniform. One of the prisoners is Mares, a former member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He has been allocated the Alsatian bitch Rita, and is secretly training her in a different way. He just pretends to beat her and at night, he goes and feeds her leftover scraps of food. Mares is planning an escape with his fellow prisoner Benda.
- A group of jolly young people work in the Prague Tesla factory, also spending most of their leisure time together. One of them, guitar player Zdenek, begins to shun his friends' company. He has fallen in love with Vera, who does not belong to the group. The happy-go-lucky young man already has several acquaintances and has his own method to get a girl: to take his motorcycle, his guitar and a bottle of wine and take her to a rented houseboat. Vera, however, is different and gets angry at Zdenek. But she is fond of him and thus eventually spends a whole evening with him on the houseboat. At a preventative medical examination, the doctor tells Vera she is pregnant.
- In the thirties of the 20th century, in the time of the economic crisis, Eda Krahulík (Petr Svojtka), an editor of the communist newspapers, comes to Ostrava to help organize a strike in the mine Hedvika. From the same train gets off also Knor (Jaroslav Moucka), a secretary of the social democratic trade union, who is known as a man who most likely helps the owners against the workers. Eda is in Ostrava incognito and therefore he hides in a mining pub in a room of a maidservant Zofka. Before long there explains the arrival of Knor - the directorate of the mine began giving notice. It is also Toník Holas (Ivan Vyskocil), supporting his widowed mother, who receives the notice. Toník is talented and constructed the drill sledge. At reward, the mines inspector promised to protect him from dismissal. The desperate young man now reminds him of the promise but the mining inspector denies everything. In an agitation, Toník shoots him dead with a father's gun.
- The year is 1953. Engineer Jaroslav Král (Zdenek Kampf) has not joined in the enthusiastic efforts to rebuild the country initiated after the Communist takeover in February 1948, and has been relocated to the archives. The chairwoman of the factory's Communist party committee Lída Jostová (Jirina Svorcová) wants to help Král and invites him to join an important research project. Král receives an unexpected visit from his former friend Weber (Milan Klásek), who moves in with him without explanation. Král is puzzled by the situation as Weber had actually emigrated some years before. He has returned to the country illegally with the object of getting possession of Král's invention. Král doesn't know what to do; he is frightened but doesn't turn Weber in. Weber goes to Král's country cottage where he and a policeman are shot by the assassin. Král is detained but the investigator Major Sýkora (Jirí Sovák), influenced by Jostová, does not believe him guilty.
- After the death of her husband, Katerina Valigurová cares for her three daughters and a farmstead alone. Life has never been kind to her, and she, too, thus often behaves harshly. She, however, loves her daughters with a non-sentimental love and does her best for the family to live according to settled rules.
- Young married couple Eva and Jarda Tuma (Dana Syslová and Oldrich Vlach) do not have a place of their own and cannot provide for a baby. However, nature wins and Eva becomes pregnant. At the maternity hospital, she gives birth to quintuplets. This great occasion does not escape the attention of the local and international media. The authorities decide to help support the family. They set up a commission for the care of the quintuplets, headed by Drahoslav Svitácek (Otomar Krejca).
- Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mines would decrease. He reasoned this decision by the fact the deposits of coal are almost used up. The boss of the mine and most of the miners protested. Barvír did not take their critical objections into account. He announced at the communist district meeting the closure of the business as the mine according to new economic principles did not prosper.
- After returning from the First World War, Jozka Jurík (Vladimír Kratina) takes a job at the Hodonín brick-works. Although they are poor, he and his wife Anka (Jana Paulová) take the abandoned boy Fanos into their family. Factory owner Kholmann (Ilja Prachar) treats his workers with jovial friendliness, but his daughter Kamila (Tatjana Medvecká) is not blind to the fact that there are children forced to work in her father's factory.
- Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic young man. Forced to leave his job because he kept provoking conflicts, he now finds some satisfaction as a member of a gang led by the failed actor Ancek (Ludek Munzar). He gets no support at home either; his father has vanished without a trace and his mother has been unable to cope. Oldrich learns all this in the small hours of the following day, after waking up next to Yellow T-shirt Boy sobering-up station. The new father is so moved by the young man's life that he starts taking care of the boy.
- Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men and enjoys their company, but there is a limit beyond which she won't go, since she is faithful to her Filip, who is doing his military service. On Sunday the girl awaits Filip to arrive on a short period of leave, but instead his friend Míla (Frantisek Nemec) turns up and apologizes for Filip, who has to stay in the barracks.
- On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel from a village Vykán to their aunt to Prague. Their parents left for Hungary to the world championship in ploughing. The children have the address but they do not know the way to the Northern Town. They set out for a place on foot, across the historical parts of the town.
- The young Eliska Janícková is watering her mother's grave. An argument of two members of the local cooperative over a sack of groats stolen from the cowshed drives her out from the cemetery. A fragile love relationship gradually develops between Eliska and Jenda Dostál, the chairman of the local youth movement organization. The young people in their village, Pavlov, do not have a simple life. The house of culture has been under construction for two years already and there are no funds to finish it. The youngsters blame their parents as well as their fellow-citizens, members of the agricultural cooperative, for thinking only of their own prosperity. The boys and girls decide to make a list of dishonest practices by cooperative members and publish them.
- The famous singer Manon Cavalliniová comes to Prague after fifteen years. Many years ago she was forced by her husband, the industrialist Rón, to choose between a career and life with him and their young daughter Vera. Now Manon invites her husband to the premiere.
- Widowed yeoman Tuma and his household are on their way to help the town of Kourim, which is under attack by the papist troops. His son Ondra is secretly following his father. Miksík the castellan, who is responsible for Ondra, finds himself forced to set off after the boy. They are both captured by soldiers from Kutná Hora. Miksík sacrifices himself to give Ondra a chance to flee. On the way, Ondra runs into the orphan Sulík. The two boys become friends and begin to wander together.
- In the South Bohemian little town, young Lenka (Lenka Machoninová) prepares for her meeting with Pavel (Ivan Vyskocil), who is visiting her from Prague. She invites her girlfriend Markéta (Miluse Voborníková) to accompany her to the date. Pavel is not alone, either - his friend Honza (Viktor Sodoma) arrived with him on a scooter. The young people walk through the forest and have a bath in the small forest lake. As the day goes, it becomes gradually clear that both the boys are interested in the more attractive Markéta.
- Twenty-three-years-old Martin Holík (Svatopluk Skopal) works in soil drainage gang and shares lodgings in a trailer with the other workers. From time to time he stays over with attractive Manca (Jana Brejchová), the local shop assistant. Just as the tattoo on his chest reminds the others more of a chicken than of an eagle, so Martin himself is more of an immature boy than the grown-up man that he would like to be seen as. His insecurity has been the cause of his unfounded jealousy and distrust of his wife Bozena (Nada Konvalinková), and he has run away from their home village leaving her behind with their young son.
- Hundreds of workers from various parts of the country work at a future Prague residence neighborhood. The bricklayer Fery (Josef Dvorák) is known as a racy strange man that refuses to stay at a lodging house and stays in a caravan just at the construction site. At a football match an Ostravian Fery has a fight with an Slávie fan Pepík Perlík (Jan Hartl. Both of them have to pay a fine. Nevertheless, Fery is friendly and suggests Pepík making up as he realizes they know each other from work. They go together to a dance café and Pepík falls in love with a singer Virzinie (Jana Janeková). Fery arranges Pepík is taken into a work group of foreman Skácel where they are not very particular about long working hours but they can earn nice money.
- Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more than thirty years. In May 1945 as a young soldier in the Red Army he was seriously injured in the liberation of Prague and while recovering experienced a great love with a young teacher called Vera.
- Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away. A plane has to make an emergency landing in the clearing and out steps a young man who is immediately taken with Mimi; she, too, is charmed by him. This provokes the gamekeeper who shoots the Robber, as he calls the pilot. The young man is wounded, but this only strengthens Mimi's love.
- Pepek (Josef Kemr) and his wife Sima (Ljuba Skorepová) make their living by casting posthumous masks. One day, Pepek decides to make a mask of his friend Lojza (Ladislav Mrkvicka) alive. Lojza cannot even move during the casting to make the plaster harden properly. As they wait, Pepek's memories begin to pop up to his mind - how he met Sima, a circus-rider, who broke her leg and lost her work in the circus, and how they then began to live together.
- The year is 1957. Almost all of the farmers in the Moravian village of Kunovice have joined the Unified Farmers' Cooperative. Joza Jagos (Radoslav Brzobohatý), the best farmer in the village, criticizes the poor management of the cooperative, the disorder, and theft, and refuses to have anything to do with the organization. He refuses to give in to the bombastic tactics of the Communist Party's district committee representative Snopka, and prefers to work himself, his wife Nanka and their three children to exhaustion in order to produce the supplies stipulated by the state on time.
- Eduard Lebeda (Lubomír Lipský) works at the dispatch department of a costume jewelery factory, but first and foremost, he is an enthusiastic member of the voluntary auxiliary police guards. In the evening, as usual, he heads for the streets of the little town to direct the traffic with his police control disk. Before he leaves, he confiscates his small son's matches. The matches have a label with two tigers on it. In front of the self-service store, two men load cases onto a lorry with the German trademark Garant. Lebeda fails to notice their nervousness and helps them with their work. He lends the matches to the driver. The roaring of a departing motorbike diverts his attention and the lorry drives off. The next day a rumor spreads about a robbery in the self-service store and Lebeda realizes that he has been an accomplice.
- Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but people have to take turns actually sailing. The club chairman Vala wants David to sail with his son Olda. Olda's previous team mate Béda has grown too fast, but with little David Olda could win a place on the regatta to Finland. Olda is arrogant and accustomed to winning with little effort; he bullies David and calls him "Greenhorn". He makes David his servant and blames him when things go wrong.
- Sixteen-year old Bobina Gromová (Zuzana Ondrouchová) surrenders to the charms of a blue-eyed youth she meets at a dance and loses her virginity with him that same night. Only then do they introduce themselves and learn each other's names. Their courtship is short-lived, the next day the assembler Pepík Bajcura leaves for Algeria to work on construction. After a while, a postcard of three camels arrives from him, with a short greeting. The letter that the pregnant Bobina writes to him is returned with a note that the addressee has died in an accident. The girl's mother Bozena (Slávka Budínová) is single, just like her grandmother and great grandmother. This is why Bozena decides to resolve her daughter's "problem" with an abortion.
- In 1929, the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is in the preparation. The Politburo Central Committee member Klement Gottwald openly criticizes the party's current leadership for political intrigues with the bourgeoisie when it should be leading the workers in their revolutionary struggle. He predicts a looming crisis in the party. The young members agree with him entirely, while the older and more conservative ones are afraid of the discord.
- In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - rifleman Kucera (Rudolf Jelínek) and dog handler Stencl (Josef Hajducík), whose sluggishness and clumsiness have won him the nickname Simpleton. The official army dog, the bitch Líza, picks up the scent of an alien dog on the German side - Black Wolf. She bites through her leash and runs away. Soon afterwards, the border boundary was interrupted. The two soldiers are wounded in the gunfire that follows, but Stencl's shot also hits the target and the intruder - an attractive woman in a black jersey - is dead. The investigation reveals that this agent knew someone among the local residents. The locals are all called in to identify the body but nobody admits to knowing the woman.
- At the beginning of the fifties of the 20th century, shortly after the founding of the Unified farmers'cooperative in the town of Mezilesí, there is shot dead a functionary Málek by three unknown men. From the Prague headquarters of the police there are sent to the village two investigators, Lanka and Malinák. The only one trace of the bandits are cans found in a desolate stone-pit in the surroundings of Mezilesí.
- Fifteen-year-old Honza Kánský dreams of getting to compete in the national swimming championship. He practices conscientiously at the swimming association and does extra training on his own. He finally achieves the speed required, and is bitterly disappointed to learn that he has not been nominated for the team because the other club members' times are better than his. He has a row with the coach, and decides to give up swimming altogether. He leaves home early in the morning and comes back late at night and pretends to his parents that he is continuing with his training. When his club goes to South Bohemia for summer practice, he pretends to go with them, but he is really hitchhiking aimlessly.
- In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora (Martin Stepánek) hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok (Martin Ruzek), but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka (Zdenek Rehor) and Terezka (Katerina Machácková), with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
- Milada Dvoráková has in front of her a wedding with her business partner Dub, owner of petrol stations. When she catches him in the arms of his secretary she breaks with him. She founds a competing firm ZUB (Zeny u benzinu - Women at the Petrol Station) that employs predominantly single women. Dub also takes up the battle of competition. His situation is precarious because drivers are giving their preference to the petrol station staffed with girls. Dub still loves Milada, he desires a reconciliation, but in vain. In the meantime, the girls experience love affairs; they want to preserve their right to fall in love and they conspire against Milada.
- The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Heinrich comes from an officer's family with an army tradition and is preparing to enter cadet college. Paul's father and grandfather are workers, and Willi, left to depend on himself, works as a hotel messenger. The last year of the war is hard for everyone, but while Paul and Willi know their own minds and do not hesitate to help the war fugitives Tony and Sepp, for Heinrich everything is more complicated.
- One cold and damp day, a doctor visits the château of a noble family. The valet, named James, takes him to the library, which holds the family's most precious possession - a numerous collection of detective stories. The visitor, however, would not talk to Sir Arthur, for he was murdered like his brother Barrymore - the former by an ax-stroke to the head or by the latter stabbed with scissors? His relative Cavaleria in turn falls from a horse, poisoned by spikes inserted into her saddle. The murderer systematically and in alphabetical order kills the heirs to the immense property. The following victims are Diorama, Evergreen, Fiddlecase, Gingerale, Heretic, Illwill, Jitterbog, Knickerbocker, Levingston and Midnight. The causes of death indeed vary: an infected mosquito, an exotic spider, a cat with poisoned claws, a sand viper, poisoned toothpaste, a poisoned envelope, poison gas and poisoned candles. A detective is called for and discovers Arthur's missing daughters Ophtalmia, Patagonia, Represalia, Sinatra and Tularemia, whose bodies were craftily hidden. The detective gradually discovers other victims - Uppercut, Venerick, Waterproof, Xenophobe, Yellowstone and Zigzag, finding out that the culprit was Nevermore who himself committed suicide in a bathtub filled with acid. The library is inherited by James and the doctor. But they do not want to share, so arm themselves and kill each other. The detective has nothing to do any more and leaves.
- Eleven-year old Mísa has the temperament of a proper boy and endless problems with the grown-ups. It is no wonder that he longs to become an adult without further delay. Mísa keeps house together with his father and has various duties. After a failed attempt at dish-washing he goes off to the research institute where his father is working on an important invention. He is trying to produce a substance that would make poultry and other animals bigger and thus help the struggle against famine in the world, but so far he has only managed to produce a shrinking substance. After his father leaves the laboratory, Mísa mixes up different ingredients and makes the growth substance. He drinks it and instantly becomes an adult. His father, conversely, turns into a toddler after drinking the shrinking substance with his beer by mistake.