Czechoslovakia (pre-)New Wave (1956-1958)
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- DirectorLadislav HelgeStarsKarel HögerBlazena HolisováJosef MixaJindrich Pelikán, an older teacher from the city of Brno, comes to teach in the small town of Milonice. His predecessor was very easy on the fifth grade class to which he is assigned. When he imposes real standards, everyone is upset - the students, their parents and the schoolmaster. The only person on the staff who appreciates his principles and his courage in sticking to them is another teacher, Andulka.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsJan JakesVáclav BabkaJana BrejchováFour stories, four seasons of the year, four periods from the human life
- DirectorVáclav KrskaStarsKarel HögerDana MedrickáJarmila SmejkalováAlexander, who is an alcoholic and a bitter mining engineer, is strictly against the workings in an old mine. He doesn't care to explain himself and tends to drinking as everyone turns on him, although he has valid reasons for his actions.
- DirectorJán KadárElmar KlosStarsVladimír RázEva OcénasováMarie BrozováA mosaic of life stories of the residents of a Prague block of flats at a tram-line terminus. Focusing on members of a small group of ordinary people, each facing a critical point in life.
- DirectorVáclav KrskaStarsEduard CupákJosef VinklárJana DítetováDan, Freddy and Carda are roaming about Prague thinking of how to get some money. They decide to break into the box-office of a cinema, but a passer-by interferes. Freddy loses his jacket in the fight, but all three young men escape at the end. Freddy is afraid to return home and is hiding at the docks. The police identify him from his papers, which they found in the jacket. At the docks Freddy meets the customs officer Tonka and stirs her to pity with a made-up story about a bullying father.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsVáclav LohniskýJosef BláhaVladimír BrabecOne of the young officers finds himself in conflict with his superiors when he secretly leaves the barracks to be near his wife, who is about to give birth.
- DirectorIvo NovákStarsRudolf JelínekJaroslava PanýrkováJan PivecCubs explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working -against their will- outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought.