Queen for a Day

Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.

1951-07-07 | en

Land

Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.

1957-02-25 | pl

Noční návštěva

1991-02-12 | cs

Služobná cesta

1981-01-01 | sk

Steps / Qayler

The meeting of a journalist and a doctor revives the memories of the war where they had first met.

1962-01-01 | hy

Mŕtvi učia živých

1984-05-01 | sk

Men Who Sleep in Cars

Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social power.

2017-10-01 | en

Heaven's Judgment

An oppressed housemaid has transformed herself into a wealthy and powerful business mogul through sheer dint of talent, ambition and driving need to avenge herself on her tormentors.

1990-11-06 | tl

Lawyer of the Poor

A kind-hearted man and lawyer's clerk, Kypr, selflessly takes care of his ward Anna Marie and in the evenings helps the poor and helpless with various legal problems at the U Hrubiána pub. While Anna Marie gains the opportunity to succeed as a singer, the aging man struggles with growing problems that stem not only from his work as a lawyer for the poor, but above all from his tragic past shrouded in mystery, which catches up with him again after years...

1941-05-02 | cs

Light Over Koordi

When Paul Runge, a soldier of the Red Army, returns home to Koordi after the war, he sees that, despite the new regime, life in Koordi hasn't changed. It's still a abandoned, uncultured Estonian village, where rich landlords still oppress the population. Runge starts talking about founding a kolkhoze.

1951-08-27 | et

Mefisto a Faust v Paríži

1983-01-01 | sk

Kde leží naša bieda

1965-01-01 | sk

Kto odchádza v daždi...

A drama from the period of village collectivisation in 1947-1948, it depicts the life of former beggars who, after the war and land reform, acquire land and dream of becoming wealthy landlords. New social conditions, the onset of collectivisation, but also the great drought bring with them unwelcome changes.

1975-03-27 | sk

Spaceways

A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime.

1953-08-07 | en

Nagsimula sa Puso

A young college student is in a heated affair with his college professor. He attempts revenge after being stricken with grief and resentment by his professor's mother, and takes revenge on his professor's now settled family only to obtain her for himself

1990-03-08 | tl

Promiňte, omyl!

A physically disabled lady is alone in her apartment one evening and has just accidentally overheard a conversation about a planned murder...

1963-01-01 | cs

Bitva na kopci

1987-11-28 | cs

Dokud jsou ryby němé

1971-01-01 | cs

Přicházejí z tmy

In a South Bohemian village in 1951, the local rich organize acts of sabotage and try to stop the establishment of an agricultural cooperative with threatening letters and arson. A kulak's son even secretly returns from the West to terrorize the village with his brother. However, the ordinary villagers stand up to them.

1954-06-18 | cs

Frona

Frona Filípková, out of a desire for a better life, married Floriš Zobač on the land. However, the ownership of the land has affected both her husband and her father-in-law, who, out of hatred, intrigue against the emerging agricultural cooperative and against each other, so Frona looks for a way to free herself.

1954-09-26 | cs