خلاصه داستان : یادآوری خاطرات کودکی بوهومیل هرابال در شهر استانبوی واقع در نیمبورک ، تحت سلطه آبجوسازی محلی.

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.

خلاصه داستان : یک مرد ساده ‌ با خدعه بوسیله مپ به نمایش عروسک خیمه شب بازی کشانده می شود، و درگیر تولید افسانه فاوستین (یک افسانه آلمانی) می شود.

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.

خلاصه داستان : کلارا و ویکتوریا خواهرانی هستند که پدرشان را از دست میدهند،و بیشتر دارایش را به کلارا میبخشد. هنگامی که کلارا با مردی که خواهرش دوست دارد،وراد رابطه می شود، ویکتوریا نقشه میکشد که او را به قتل برساند ...

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.