Kyeong-su, a child living in an orphanage, learns that his mother is alive and living in Japan. He tries to find a way to cross the see and winds up stowing away on a cargo ship.
Shows the eccentricties of Le Socrate, a philosopher who has divorced himself from materialistic society and a local policeman assigned to watch him.
The lawyer Emil Fencl (Otomar Krejca) has retired and returns from his countryside place of work to Prague, to his own villa inhabited by his nephews - Karel with his wife Jitka and the ...
Journalist in midlife crisis is having an affair with a young girl.
Ahmet is a truck driver and gets into trouble because of somebody who is robber.
A former police officer tries to prevent his daughter from getting married to a man who is a murder suspect.
After the uprooting, Vasilis will be alone in Athens and will grow up with an old man Manto who will learn a bouzouki. He will get a job in a tavern and start looking for his lost family. ...
The head of a happy family becomes infatuated with a poor, homeless woman. He sheds himself of his home, family and friends to join her in a wandering group of beggars.
Mendoza, an officer of the Spanish Navy, sadly contemplates the "Cervera" cruise, scrapped after serving glorious services for many years. He remembers with nostalgia the history of the ...
During a concert in Japan a singer encounters his childhood sweetheart and their old love is rekindled with new passion. However their love is a problem for the singer because he is already engaged to the daughter of his mentor.
Northern Finland in the 1930's a worker is shot. The murderer belongs to the counterrevolutionary Lapua Movement. Fascism is spreading across Europe. A time of violence has arrived.
The three grotesque novels whose action takes place at different times of the recent past are united by a common thematic key - their protest against violence and militarism, expressed by means of a kind of absurd humor.