Episode list

In WWI a Czech civilian is forced into the conquering Austrian army. Everywhere he goes, everything he is ordered to do becomes a disaster for the Austrians. Is Schwejk astoundingly stupid or deviously defiant?

During World War II, Leo Popper, a travel agent traveling across the country to sell vacuum cleaners, loses his job, for the sole fault of being Jewish. When his two sons are sent to the camp, in order to provide them food for the road, the poor father is forced to kill a deer, a being he considered sacred.

Nearly a decade after the Civil War, a doctor in Vicksburg submitted a story to a medical journal that has since become legend.

Karl, Nazi consul in the US and a compulsive gambler, embezzles state funds and enrages his wife Sophia, his secretary Max as well as US police officer Moe who is detailed to duty in the consulate and to protect the German diplomats.

A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.

Five prisoners, a woman and four men, return to France after WW2. We follow their rocky road to life. It's a movie which consists of five different stories.