خلاصه داستان : در چکسلواکی کمونیستی پس از جنگ جهانی دوم، چندین شخصیت که بورژوا محسوب می‌شوند برای بازپروری به کار در انبار زباله محکوم می‌شوند. در میان آنها مرد جوانی است که برای یک محکوم زن کاج می کند.

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.

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 : سال های جنگ جهانی دوم. جوانی به نام »میلوش« (نکار) کاری در یک ایستگاه کوچک راه آهن به دست می آورد. او با »ماشا« (بندووا) یکی از کارکنان قطار، رابطه ای صمیمانه پیدا می کند و به او علاقه مند می شود...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.