Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first story we see an unnecessarily strict teacher, in the middle one a sports career is glossed over, which causes a young teacher to leave his job. In the final story, on the other hand, an experienced high school teacher goes to teach in a rural school to gain inner peace.
Jiří Pleskot
Kalousek (segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Luděk Nešleha
Jirka (segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Otakar Brousek
Petr Loris (segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Jana Gýrová
(segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Zuzana Ondrouchová
Radka (segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Radka Dulíková
(segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Mnislav Hofmann
(segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Václav Neužil st.
(segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Karel Augusta
(segment "Jak se plaší Smrtihlav")
Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first story we see an unnecessarily strict teacher, in the middle one a sports career is glossed over, which causes a young teacher to leave his job. In the final story, on the other hand, an experienced high school teacher goes to teach in a rural school to gain inner peace.
A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team