Slavomír Záhradník

A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.

While playing Indians two Czechoslovak pioneers are captured by the criminal who wants to cross the border illegally.

The son of a charcoal burner was once prophesied as a child to marry the daughter of a king. The king tries to prevent this by all means.

If I Had a Girl

It is summer 1944. The war is far away from Slovak mountains for the time being. The head of forest management Borodác brings a new employee to complete the eight woodcutters work team of Czechs, Slovaks and one Pole - the young guy is Martin Uher, a former clerk form Prague. The eight tough men do not trust the newcomer at first, but as time is passing, they got used to him. After some time, Martin gets next to Julika, a young wife of the gamekeeper Tkác (Vlado Müller) and they begin to go out secretly. The gamekeeper knows that Martin had promised to cooperate with German Gestapo, after he had experienced a hard interrogation. In avoiding to be a grass, Martin leaves Prague to hide in Slovak mountains. Tkác wants Martin to inform on his colleagues who hide guns in the forest to ready to use them against Nazis.

Tango pre medveďa

Traja svedkovia

Drahý strýčko

Exemplárny prípad

Hrdina západu

Člny proti prúdu

Lorenzaccio

Chlapec do náručia

Deň slnovratu

Čierne ovce

Dravý prúd

Štyri strany sveta

Drama about the rebellion of the Trencín Infantry Regiment against its superior officers in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, at the end of the First World War. It was the biggest and deadliest rebellion in the Austro-Hungarian army.

Česť

Kamaráti

Smrť sa volá Engelchen

Tri razy svitá ráno

Most na tú stranu

Vždy možno začať

This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro Jánošík [1688-1713] and the social situation in Slovakia of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The first part talks about Jánošík's childhood, studies and return to his native village. In the second part Jánošík leaves for the hills, where he organizes his band of brigands and starts an anti-feudal resistance. The film concludes with Jánošík's execution.

Začít znova

Smrť prichádza v daždi

A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate his gesture and leaves the stolen goods in a safe hideaway to later divide them fairly among the gang members. This conviction gives Jakub the strength to endure the unbearable conditions in the center. But reality is often much harsher than naive ideals and hollow relations in the gang.

A dramatic story about two friends - fisherman Richardus and municipal executioner Emil Targo takes place at the river Danube, in places that used to be targets of Ottoman raids. But their attraction to the same woman and Emil’s betrayal change their indissoluble friendship to an equally strong hatred. And as it usually goes - after twenty years by a trick of fate Richardus’ daughter Agajka becomes the wife ofthe sun of his sworn enemy.

A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.

A film about the dramatic lives ofthe people of the village of Ráztoka during WW I. Women are left without husbands, families fall apart, finding themselves on the verge of poverty. Eva, the main heroine, is going through difficulties after her husband was drafted to the army. Her defilement and her tragic death cause a rebellion by which the village inhabitants finally stand up against their unbearable situation.

Volanie démonov

A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. The five girls first try to defend themselves, but when they find out that nobody believes them - neither the school principal nor even their own parents - they decide to accomplish what they have been falsely accused of. And although their clumsy attempts are mostly comic, at one point they almost cause a big tragedy.

A woman prisoner is harshly incarcerated and suddenly released.

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."

Niet inej cesty

Stopy na Sitne

A story of a man threatened by a fatal illness evaluating his life (the number 322 in the film title stands for the diagnosis of one kind of cancer). He understands his illness as a form of punishment for his cruel deeds in the 1950s. In the face of reality and his efforts to cleanse himself he hits a barrier of indifference, lack of interest, and individual and collective selfishness. He has to find his own reconciliation with his illness and his past and present life.

A tragic story of two young people who are in the precious moments of first emotional flare deeply disappointed by the shallow feelings of their parents as well as their relatives and friends.

Rekviem za rytierov

The second, and unfortunately. the last feature film made by a unique talent among Slovak filmmakers, Elo Havetta, is one of the most originial pictures of Slovak cinematography. The film was conceived as a paraphrase of Vincent Šikula's prose, the tragic episodes of which screenwriter Lubor Dohnal and Havetta composed into a dramatic story. The main characters are veterans coming home from the First World War. And while they feel a need to find A home and settle down, they are also driven by a passion for a vagrant's free life.

Tie malé výlety

Poradila teta Beta

Sokoliarova dcéra

Tetované časom

Život na úteku

Do posledného dychu

Rozdelení

The story of a young lawyer who finds herself in a difficult situation when she encounters troubles in her burgeoning career and complications in private her life.

Já jsem Stěna smrti

Poéma o svedomí

Pustý dvor

Social ballad. Three short stories – "Uzlík tepla", "Chlapec a pánboh" and "Rubári" – depict three different human stories, the common denominator of which is suffering and existential threat.

Klietka plná vtákov

Timon Aténsky

Víťazný pád

Blízke diaľavy

Minúta rozhodnutia

Ján Literát

Chlapi

Kolíska

Prešporská kasáreň maľovaná

The drama of a man driven to crime by the mechanism of violence in an American prison. It is an indictment of American justice and the barbarically cruel methods of prison staff. Based on Jack London's novel "The Star Rover".

Zlý záber

Mladé letá

Kráľ sa zabáva

Kufor plný zlata

V stolnom meste Kyjeve

Lucrezia Borgia

Tri dominá

Leove noci

Posledný pohárik

Zypa Cupak

Ako sa Štrbania s Važťanmi o bujaka Šándora pasovali

Koncert bez ruží

Lavína

Portrét chlapca

Posledná fáza zatmenia

„Zbožňovaná“

Druhá láska

Nádej má farbu belasú

A funny story about a little boy everybody call Pipo and his summer vacations in the village.

Bakaláři

Mesto Anatol

To je váš prípad, Šetaffy

Vzbúrené mesto

Ve znamení Merkura

Zrkadlo občana Pokorného

A. C. Dupin zasahuje

V tieni vlkov

Miesto v dome

Kronika

Ľudia z kanálovej štvrte

Straty a nálezy

Brána k domovu

Najkrajšie roky života

Štipku soli

Nech žije deduško

Výmysly uja Elektróna

Svadba bez nevesty

Bocianie hniezdo

Na baňu klopajú

Reverend

Šiel tovariš svetom

Hráč na vlastnú päsť

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