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- The initiation of a young Jewish child into Guernica's world.
- A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.
- By the end of 2nd World War 3 prisoners wish to escape from the train. To make it real, they need to get food first...
- The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others. Voices that determine and give orders that object and shed judgmental comments, and she begins to feel more and more isolated.
- A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.
- Juxtaposition of atomic explosions with candid-camera scenes taken in the booking hall of Prague Central Station.
- A burglar breaks into a home and is caught by a young boy. The burglar then poses as the boy's uncle in order not to get caught by the parents.
- A Russian prisoner escapes from the Germans, finding shelter with a Czech farmer and his family. A neighbor betrays them and is sentenced by the villagers.
- Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings.
- The childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal living in his provincial hometown of Nymburk.
- A cat belonging to Mr and Mrs K describes the strange behavior of its master and mistress with the help of a fable about a mouse who is heading irrevocably towards a trap. Mr K, a valuer of deceased persons' property, has taken some jewelry and hidden it in his flat. His fear prevents him from selling his cache, however. Just when he is adorning his wife with some of the jewels, Mr B, a curious neighbor, pays them a visit.
- Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much about the concert as about himself, both as a lonely foreigner and as a human being in cosmos. Here and there he encounters some racist comments, but mostly he just feels the weight of social exclusion because of his otherness, especially when it comes to women. On the morning of the day for his concert the embassy informs him that his whole family has perished. He feels totally broken, although he thinks that everyone holds some pain inside. His piano teacher, a professor at the Academy, looks him up, and tells him that he heard what has happened. The professor advises him to communicate his feelings that evening by using his Bach.
- A film about life in the Czech border area after the expulsion of the Germans.