Martin Růžek

Spanilá jízda

In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussi…

The Dynamite Watcher

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchm…

Tři chlapi v chalupě

The three Potůčks live in a house in Ouplavice: a widower grandfather, a son whose wife has run away…

Silence

Akce Kalimantan

The story of Indonesian paratroopers during the fighting for the island of Kalimantan.…

Pochodně

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa…

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin

Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en rout…

The Night Guest

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people pr…

Tažní ptáci

A bunch of old friends reunite for the start of the rail tunnel construction. The miner Vojta Balvín…