根据赫拉巴尔同名小说改编。在废纸回收站工作三十五年的打包工汉嘉，他沉浸于阅读在废品中找到的书籍……

伊華．舒爾姆被尊為捷克新浪潮的「哲人」和「良心」，究其原因，是他敢於直視政治和社會、抨擊其虛偽蒙騙的道德執著。首部執導的劇情片開創新浪潮鞭撻現實的風氣。年青的模範工人向來奉行為黨為人民鞠躬盡粹的信念，可制度的高壓、特權階層的跋扈使他進退兩難，不肯放棄真理，代價是喪失一切。影片以寫實的新電影觀衝擊社會主義現實主義的教條，拆解政治的神話和謊言，一針見血的指出國家的腐化狀況，可謂言人所未言，回應了時代的呼喚，難怪立即被禁，兩年後才得見天日。舒爾姆於六十年代的創作成績斐然，可惜「布拉格之春」後被禁拍片多年，境遇一如他創造的悲劇人物。

盧卡諾國際電影節大獎、捷克影評人協會年度大獎

毫無疑問是捷克新浪潮最重要的領軍作品之一，曾長期被禁，是東歐首部成功處理異化，以及革命者與野心家之間的矛盾的影片。此作亦令舒爾姆成為捷克電影新浪潮的思想領袖。

- Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

Any director will tell you that making a film takes courage. But making a film that blatantly criticizes the repressive Communist government of your country? That takes real courage. No wonder Evald Schorm was long known as “the conscience of the Czech New Wave” — he even was forced to stop making films for 18 years, as the Soviet censors considered his vision too subversive. Courage for Every Day was his first move into such dangerous territory, portraying the life and changing times of average factory worker Jarda Lukas. At first loyal to the party and its ideals, Lukas gradually wakes up to the corruption all around him—tracing the journey of a man from faith to disillusionment.

Grand Prize at Locarno International Film Festival,
Annual Prize of Czech Film Critics

Possibly the most influential and most accomplished work of the Czech renaissance, this story of a disillusioned young Communist increasingly at odds with his environment touched on themes of alienation, opportunism, the exhaustion of ideology, and charted with progress of a secular crucifixion.

- Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

Source: HKIFF Czech New Wave 2006

Even the pre-Blohemian times were not idyllic. Even a bachelor, invited by the consuls to Rakovník to elevate the local education system, finds out. But the stingy and proud townspeople soon grow to dislike him, and even love does not develop according to his wishes.

Miroslav Hornicek is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat. Before he can be rounded up and interned wherever they keep people with this type of a problem, love enters his life and the clouds that obscured his vision begin to dissipate.

The history of the rebellion of the brave Chody, led by Jan Sladký Kozina and Matěj Přibek, against the violent tyranny of the foreign nobleman Maximilian Lamminger of Albenreuth. Based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek.

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife and grandparents, desperately struggling with the lack of money. One day he offers an old man a seat on a crowded trolley bus and is generously rewarded for his good deed, for the unknown old man is a fabulous grandfather. He gives Peter a magic bell and the opportunity to make three wishes, but the first two slip through his fingers. For the third, the astonished man must take time to think...