Robert Nebřenský

1941. The Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion is sent to the town of Tobruk, Libya; their task is to join the allies in defending the last strategic seaport from the German and Italian units. Among them is the young soldier Jirí, his naive ideas about heroism are starkly confronted with the hell of the African desert, the complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death.

A dog living on the outskirts of a Russian city is forcibly sent into space but manages to crash-land on a faraway planet where she meets some new friends.