Brush Me Tender, Brush Me Sweet

A young film fan discovers that he has become the main character in an action movie, which, despite his wishes, is being created by the unpredictable Director. Will he manage to defeat the evil villains and save the love of his life thanks to his knowledge of the rules of the genre?

Four fathers meet in the secondary school gym, where the headmistress has summoned them after a bag containing a suspicious white powder was found amongst their sons’ belongings during a skiing trip. Each of them arrives with different excuses and the conviction that it is their child who is innocent. What’s more, the headmistress knows that a local councillor is trying to secure her job for his mistress, and she suspects that the whole situation is part of a campaign against her. The meeting thus quickly descends into a series of misunderstandings, accusations and increasingly absurd situations. One afternoon that spirals completely out of control for everyone involved.

It is the spring of 1948. The joy of peace has not yet faded, and both East and West are already afraid of World War III. Both worlds are separated from each other by the deep forests of Šumava. Twenty-four-year-old cook Josef Hasil serves in the kitchen of the National Security Corps in Zvonková. Wild boy. He had already experienced the war in a German labor camp and as a link between partisans. Now he longs above all for fun, adventure, freedom. The last thing he cares about is politics.

At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.

Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, in its intensity and graphically described detail.

As World War II rages on, Villi and Colette are captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Imprisoned within separate compounds, the lovers must risk their lives to be together again.

Situated in Prague, a 20-year-old Vietnamese named Song, hoped for a better future in Europe. But now in a Vietnamese district in Prague, he is trapped in a marijuana grow house and has life of a modern slave. Police rounds up the place. Song runs away on the rooftop of a condo building in a nearby district where he breaks down. Mr. Rypar (78) lives alone. He is fond of the old times, living in a strong opposition to modern world. Rypar goes up on the roof and meets Song standing on the very edge of the roof crying and the story begins.

Four old friends decide to shake up their unhappy, monotonous lives with a friendly bet and set off a series of unexpected events.

Fourty-two year old Charlotte lives in seclusion with her father in Trentino. She is mentally impaired and lives in a world of her own. When her father is hospitalised for a heart attack, Charlotte's ten year younger brother, Leo, returns to the village after a decade's absence. He learns that his sister wants to leave and asks her to come to Switzerland with him.

Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but relationship´s loser so he tries to find his true love at least at the past. During his journey he passes not just through relationship´s problem but thanks to his radical opinions also encounters problems with communists, even if he knows already from the future that totalitarian regime won´t last forever.

Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her passionate relationship with the sinister Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich.