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The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

An adventurer has proclaimed himself Czar of the People and resent the countryside at the head of his horde of bandits.

Mána is a young secretary. One evening she and her roommate accompany two wealthy older gentlemen to dinner. After one of them offers money to her she realizes his intentions and flees from the restaurant in shock. She later meets a man named Karel in a nearby café. They spend the night wandering the rainy streets of Prague and the two quickly develop strong feelings for each other.

A woman returns from the countryside to her home in Prague and works as a prostitute. When she accepts the plight of a convicted murderer to spend one night with a woman before his death, she garners the criticisms of everyone around her.

A Venetian gondolier looks for his beloved, who a Czech count had taken away and then rejected.Meanwhile the gondolier finds a boy among a group of gypsies in Bohemia and the two become wandering musicians.

A professor known for his motto "Morality Above All Else" receives an unexpected and unwelcome visit from his illegitimate daughter.

Young Matula has succumbed to gambling and he steals money from his parents to finance his passion. His father catches him red-handed and throws him out of the house. Matula roams the world and meets Vávra, also a tramp, who accepts a job as a road-sweeper but he soon dies in a car accident. On his lone wanderings Matula finds a miraculous little key which opens all locks. With its help he acquires a great fortune. He breaks into a bank and steals more money. He then meets the daughter of the cashier who was wrongly accused under suspicion of theft and when he sees her despair, he realizes his wrong-doings. Finally he wakes up - it had all been a dream. (According to the censor's certificate).

Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.

Vojtech's sweetheart Frantina leaves for work in Prague. Vojtech promises his dying mother that he will become a priest. His brother Karel is to inherit the mill. However, he attacks the weak Josífek at the dedication and then flees the village. He hides in a quarry with an unknown vagrant. When a stone is blasted in the quarry, the tramp dies and Karel exchanges his papers for his own.

During a pogrom against Jews in a village, an innkeeper is killed, his daughter is put in a convent after being crucified, and her illegitimate child, who later grows up to be a student, is placed in the care of a guardian.

Two high school boys, both taken with a girl in another school, are expelled after a conflict with a headmaster, in this drama of adolescence and critique of authoritarianism.

A reporter who witnesses a murder wants to get a sensational exclusive report for his magazine. He therefore traces the killer on his own, but finds himself under the suspicion that he is the perpetrator of the murder. Chased by the police his world is turned upside down.