The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub recount their own experiences of such cases, furthermore influenced by their experiences in the First World War...

1955 film by Miroslav Cikán

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration camp during WWII.

V prosinci r. 1437 se císař Zikmund, český a uherský král, vrací z Prahy do Uher. Pro vleklé onemocnění se zastavuje i s doprovodem na Znojemském hradě. Císařova choť Barbora, dcera Alžběta s manželem, vévodou Albrechtem Habsburským, nejvyšší kancléř Kašpar Šlik, biskup, lékaři, ale také někdejší stoupenec husitského hnutí mistr Křišťan z Prachatic, ti všichni očekávají smrt císaře. Členové rodiny a dokonce i nejvyšší kancléř uvažují o tom, jak pro sebe získat českou korunu. Císař již diktuje testament, avšak zatím ho nestvrdí pečetí. Čeká a bilancuje svou vládu. Ač se brání, neustále ho pronásledují vzpomínky na husitské hnutí, jež tak krutě potlačil, a na Husa, za jehož smrt nesl zodpovědnost. Drama posledních dnů mocného jedince, který sčítá svá vítězství a své prohry, poskytlo Rudolfu Hrušínskému v titulní roli příležitost uplatnit své výsostné herecké umění.

A young and ambitious engineer named Švajcar arrives at the family of a businessman as the fiancé of the factory owner's daughter. He meets his father-in-law's brother Cyril, who pretends to be invisible. The family plays this game with him so that they don't have to put him in an institution.

1941 Czech film directed by Otakar Vávra

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.

A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grades begin to pile up, a product of his predecessor's subservience to the system, the new teacher has to stand up for himself and his students.

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six soldiers, escapes from the Foreign Legion fortress. Their aim is to reach the Allies and fight against Nazism. The truck is destroyed by a German army plane, which is hit by enemy fire in its turn. One Czech soldier dies in the attack, the driver is badly wounded, and Navara has serious burns on his face. The group has very little water and must reach an oasis that is 60 km away.

1949 film directed by Josef Mach