Jitka Cerhová

Hlídač

Ivan Renč

Jiří Hrzán, Věra Tichánková

Daisies

Věra Chytilová

Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

Mučedníci lásky

Jan Němec

Petr Kopřiva, Hana Kuberová

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

Svatá hříšnice

Vladimír Čech

Martin Štěpánek, Bohuš Záhorský

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 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, 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 and Terezka, with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.