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- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsJaroslav PruchaBarbara DrapinskaJaroslav Marvan1945 Prague. Citizens join fights actively against a tank brigade heading near the city. Thy are organizing a resistance against the Germans.
- DirectorPalo BielikMartin FricStarsPalo BielikJirina StepnickováJúlius PántikThe first Slovak feature film made after the Second World War. Before the First World War, many Slovaks emigrated to America in search of a better life, because Slovakia was oppressed by the ruling Hungarian government and people could not find work. Like others, Ondrej Muranica, a young mountaineer, goes overseas to find work and earn money for his family in the New World of his dreams. However, his dreams and hopes for a better life are dashed by a mining disaster. Ondrej is saved, but loses his memory. He is declared missing and when he accidentally regains his memory years later, Ondrej decides to return home. Only after returning to his homeland does he discover that his wife Eva has married his best friend Miso. As if on cue, disaster looms.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich LukesJosef ChvalinaJana Dítetová1931: The course of an organized strike by which workers in the North Moravian steelworks resisted mass redundancies in times of economic crisis.
- DirectorVladimír Bahna
- DirectorMartin FricStarsOldrich NovýHana VítováElla NollováPoor country girl survives the perils of a big city thanks to unselfish support of a noble millionaire.
- DirectorJirí KrejcíkStarsMarie VásováMilos NedbalBohus ZáhorskýInsurer Dolezal, uncompromising in his office, a regular husband and father of twelve-year-old Jirka and little Alice, spends a business trip a night with secretary Vlasta. In the morning, on the way back, accidentally runs over a little boy.
- DirectorPalo BielikStarsSamuel AdamcíkGaspar ArbetDusan BlaskovicFollowing Viktor Kolibec a soldier of the slovak troops of the 71th regiment of the Austria-Hungarian army. And their uprising against their commanders.
- DirectorPalo BielikStarsBeta PonicanováJozef BudskýMikulás Huba
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorJán LackoStarsJana KasanováStefan KvietikEva Poláková
- DirectorStefan UherStarsMarián BielikJana BelákováOlga SalagováOldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
- DirectorPeter SolanStarsStefan KvietikManfred KrugValentina ThielováIn a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing ability. Ordered to train, he gradually sharpens his skills.
- DirectorEduard GrecnerStarsAnton OcelkaVera KresadlováFrantisek VeleckýThe story of two friends, the astronomer Tur and the sculptor Andrei. It shows their different reactions to the question of life today: what can one man do to save humanity from destruction, to free the world from the constant threat of nuclear war.
- DirectorAntonín MásaStarsPetr CepekTána FischerováMarta KrásováOnce, a young poet (Petr Cepek) has been killed in the Art Nouveau setting of the castle The World. Later, his diary is found and the brief and incoherent notes became the basis for the story of the events preceding the murder.
- DirectorOtakar VávraStarsJaromír HanzlíkZuzana CigánováJanusz StrachockiA lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.
- DirectorDusan Hanák
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsJirí SýkoraJana StehnováVlado MüllerJuraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in his life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
- DirectorEvald SchormStarsJana BrejchováJan KacerJirina JiráskováA worker from a big machine-tool plant engaged himself in the political work and quickly climbed up. When Stalin's cult of personality was revealed and rejected, many things changed and he was unable to cope with such changes.