Bohumil Hrabal

A young man follows his father's footsteps and joins the railway company, where he learns the job and has his first affair... (imdb)

A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel. (imdb)

A film about a local brewery director, his wife and their life in the brewery. (imdb)

Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. (imdb)

Gathering five seminal figures of the Czech New Wave at the dawn of their careers for the first celluloid transliteration of Bohumil Hrabal, Pearls of the Deep has cultural and historical cachet to burn, but as with most omnibus films the on-screen results are mixed. (prague.tv)

It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. (imdb)

The story takes place in small pub. There are football fans warming up for a important game. Four older ladies playing cards and singing love songs all the time. Retired football player arguing with old man about football and good old times. Calm billiards players. Nervous bartender irritated by the young arrogant guest reading a book and... beautiful woman waiting outside.

Herzs directorial debut Sberne Surovosti/The Junk Shop (1965) was originaly meant as part of the famous czech new wave manifesto Pearls of the Deep. Shorts based on a collection of Bohumil Hrabal's stories by the same name.