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- Although the heroine works as a seamstress, she would like to become a designer. And she does have talent, even a businessman from Paris shows interest in her. But much turns out to be different than it first appears.
- Sherlock Holmes must find someone to impersonate King Fernando XXIII of Puerto Rico, but the double he chooses doesn't prove to be as manageable as the great detective could have hoped.
- A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy. The cooperative flourishes and after a chase/pursuit with the police, pratfalls, slapstick and various crashes, the workers buy out the Milk-Trust.
- Poor girl turns the no-good son of her employer to a man.
- A woman protects the secrets of a Vienna clothing manufacturer for new dress ideas ,from being stolen by a scheming lady thief.
- "Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she serves.
- A fortune-teller forecasts for Dr. Prelouc that he will marry the third poverty-stricken little girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and with the aid of his housekeeper Amálka she insinuates herself into his household in the disguise of a poor seller of shoe-laces. She has prepared for her role beforehand by surveying the outskirts of the city where she met Vendelín Pleticha, who became her guide to the local pubs and teacher of the people's speech. Dr. Prelouc is inspired by the poor, uneducated girl and tries to teach her the rudiments of societal behavior, even literary language. Everything goes along until the moment he finds out that Míla is tricking him and that Pleticha is not the father she has passed him off to be.
- Duchacek is the employee in the law company. As a faithful employee he is working hard to help his boss. And when it seems almost impossible to collect enough money in time, you should give this task to Duchacek.
- Josef Hupka loves music more than anything in the world. He fails his graduation and joins wandering musicians. His wife becomes the violinist Hanci, who gives birth to his son Hynek. Unfortunately, however, Hanci dies of typhus and Josef is left alone with his son. He tries to make a living by playing on the street.
- Classic comedy with famous Vlasta Burian in the lead role tells us about an undertaker who loves his job very much and who during a wedding which he mistakenly considers as a funeral decides to take advantage of an old man and impersonate him in an insurance deception.
- Vincenc Babocka, a private eye, is in a hotel in Karlovy Vary mistakenly held for Leon Weber, international adventurer searched by the police. Babocka decides to use the confusion to expose Weber's accomplices, preparing to steal diamonds
- Jan Sochor, a renowned poacher, is strongly opposed to the young prince wooing his daughter Baruska. He remembers all too well the time of his own youth and his contribution to the preservation of the princely family.
- Fred Baron, a businessman, wants to commit suicide because he has no money to pay his notes and owes Mr. Haller money he lost to him at Linde's gambling house. Ronny, an adventurer, stops him from committing suicide and promises to help him.
- Vacational comedy about temp laborers in a farm, full of misunderstandings, scams and summer love.
- Young village shopkeeper Ferda Zuska wants to throw himself in front of a train because his girl has married another man. At the last moment he is saved by the railway watchman Dousa and his wife Anna. Ferda soon forgets his sorrow and begins to court this Anna. The unsuspecting Dousa is the object of laughter for the entire village. In addition, in saving Ferda he slipped on the railway tracks and since that time he has had poor hearing. One day he even discovers to his horror that he has become completely deaf and for this reason he must leave his job. After some time his hearing returns. Dousa decides to pretend further that he is deaf to find out what people think of him.