Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.

Orphaned Zdeňka Štěpánová helps her foster parents in Moravia at an inn. One day she learns that she is to be taken in by the owner of a toy factory, Miloš Kavan, who will fulfill her father's last wish. At the same time that Kavan and his housekeeper Mrs. Julie are expecting Zdeňka, their caretaker's little niece Hanička arrives. Mrs. Julie initially considers her her protégé, because she has no idea that Zdeňka is already a grown-up girl...

A film about the history of a new stroller that broke, a fountain pen that doesn't write and an electric stove that burns fuses every time it's turned on, and the problems that Mr. Husička, Pepíček and Miss Boženka had with them.

A poetic impression of the beauty and perfection of the work of the Dytrych bell casters, who cast new bells from bells destroyed by the war.

Color abstract animated movie turns into "Saponia" soap advertisement.

Zdeněk Miler's animation short about geometrical shapes.

A documentary film about the Nazi criminal Stefan Rojek. Rojko was an SS-Oberscharführer in the Small Fortress Terezín during World War II, the "right hand" of the fortress commander Heinrich Jöckel. After the war he fled to Graz, later sentenced to life imprisonment, and was paroled on 24 June 1975. The film was made in cooperation with the SPB and the Memorial of National Suffering in Terezín.

A water sprite settled in a mountain stream. He stops the water and catches fish. So the frightened villagers try to persuade him to move to the Jizera River, where there is plenty of water. But in vain! The water sprite won't even listen—the Jizera River is far away, he would have to walk there on dry land, and that would destroy the little green man. The water in the stream has dried up, and he cannot walk on dry land. But if they built a higher dam to raise the water level in the stream, he would swim away today and even pay them... The negotiators – a shoemaker, a tailor, and a hammerer – consult and decide to do what the water sprite wants...

It follows vibrant young Australian woman Laura, who forges a successful banking career in London and seemingly has the perfect marriage. Her world is turned upside down when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her husband starts to show his true colors. When a tragic accident leaves her a widowed mother with three sons, she returns home to Australia, and is reunited with Michael, a high school friend and a divorcee with one daughter, who has loved Laura since they were teenagers.

The film tries to persuade young viewers that they should only watch TV after having completed their duties; it shows them (and their parents) what the world would look like if everyone watched TV instead of working.

A commercial promoting Schicht's margarine Vitello. Uncle Bobby walks out of the Vitello factory and heads into the countryside. A cow does not let him milk her and a hen refuses to give him eggs. Uncle Bobby goes for help to a magic king who lives in a forest in a mushroom-shaped cottage. The king turns Uncle Bobby into a charming commercial doll of the Schicht company. Uncle Bobby in his new guise easily milks the cow and gets eggs from the hen. He then returns to the factory with the milk and the eggs. It turns out that the story was being watched by the dolls from the theatre auditorium. Now, the curtain on the stage is pulled back and Uncle Bobby is in front of it and enjoys the applause of the audience. The commercial for the Czechoslovak-based Schicht company (Jiří Schicht a. s.) was filmed abroad.