Jaroslava Obermaierová

In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students... (imdb)

In this extremely strange Czech film, the grim story is told in reverse. The film literally runs backwards at the beginning as it depicts Mensik's severed head rolling back onto his body during a beheading... (AllMovie.com)

A young Jewish girl survives her stay in a Nazi concentration camp and later finds difficulty adjusting to postwar life in an orphanage sponsored by an international organization. What little money she comes across she spends on her friends. When she meets a sickly young girl, she takes the younger girl under her wing because she reminds her of herself. Despite her harrowing past, the tender-hearted girl tries to make a new life for herself.

A search takes place for a maniac who has murdered two female hitch-hikers.