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Krok do tmy (2014)
Character: N/A
A young doctor, former partisan leader - is he a hero, or a murderer? His wife - a victim, or a minion of a totalitarian regime? And his lover - a political careerist, or a naive single mother betrayed by fate? The dramatic fates of these antiheroes from the era of rise of communism are stories of violence and resistance, weakness and courage, much like the ones that take place today.
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Nevěrné hry (2003)
Character: N/A
The film tells the story of Eva, a pianist who followed her husband, musician and composer Peter, to a small village on the Slovak-Hungarian border. While Peter enjoys the peace and quiet of composing in the local environment, Eva searches in vain for a career as a performer, feeling disconnected not only from her family but also from her familiar Prague surroundings and friends. Unfaithful Plays is an intimate love drama about love, infidelity, human failures and finding oneself.
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Spiaci účet (2024)
Character: Gross
The young couple's search for the secret of their ancestors. Its roots are in the time when the worst crimes of the last century took place, connected with corruption, boundless greed, ruthlessness, with borderline manifestations of inhumanity, but also with an unlimited desire for power. Dramatic reflection of memory and time in a story from the present in the confrontation of the Czechoslovak context during the Slovak State (1939/1945).
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Táto izba sa nedá zjesť (2026)
Character: N/A
Tereza, a teenager, is incredibly bold, especially in art lessons. Whilst the rest of the class is creating their artwork, she defiantly hands in a blank sheet of paper, claiming she has depicted a wall. She knows she can get away with more.
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O Jankovi kľúčiarovi (1994)
Character: N/A
A philosophical fairy tale based on the themes of Pavel Dobšinský about faith in man, the good in him, which only love can help to win. Princess Jasna also had such faith in goodness and love, which is why she endured with great difficulty the choice of her father - the king who, after the death of the queen, decided to marry Morana, whose only goal was to destroy all good among people, to elevate selfishness over love, avarice over compassion - and slowly succeeded in doing so in the land of Jasna's father. And because Jasienka refuses to live with Morana and behave according to her, Morana bewitches her until there is a groom who can express his love for her without words, guess her name and give her a gift like no other. For a long time there is no one who can do it, until a young man appears in the royal city, whom the brothers mockingly nickname Janko - the key-holder - only because he preferred a simple key from his father as a gift to the golden cluster...
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Zlý žart (1993)
Character: N/A
The tragicomedy of a man who, by inappropriately attending the wedding of his subordinate, wants to demonstrate humanistic thinking in a society that is not ripe for such ideas. However, it turns out that even for him humanism is just a declared empty concept, serving to gain popularity. His whole democratization "mission" results in a farce, for which, out of offended vanity, he takes merciless revenge on his subordinates and on the whole environment...
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A temetetlen halott (2004)
Character: (as Ady Hajdu)
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre Nagy, and the memories of his daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, as well as authentic documents and records.
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Memento (1991)
Character: Michal
Dedicated to the living and the dead. Video film about the self-destruction of a young person subject to drug addiction. A dramatic story from the environment of drug addicts. Released in 1990, directed by Samuel Ivaška, based on the 1986 book by te same name written by Radek John
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O dve slabiky pozadu (2005)
Character: Ady
Zuzana is an attractive and likable art student who works alongside her studies because she would like to start a life of her own. Like many young people, she is trying to find what would fulfill her, what she would like to do, find out who she would like to live with. She runs away from one lover in Bratislava to another in Paris, she is at work when she should be at school, she sleeps when she should be at home, she travels the world. She simply often feels two syllables behind. And not just literally when working in dubbing, but figuratively in his own life.
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Tango s komármi (2009)
Character: Karol Deman
Two emigrants return home to Slovakia for a few days after many years. Karol needs to get divorced because he wants to remarry happily and advantageously. Rudo is supposed to discreetly watch over him so that he does not fail. He was hired by Karol's fiancée, who wants to have everything insured. After arriving in Bratislava, the situation for both of them unexpectedly becomes complicated. The past has caught up with them...
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Rivers of Babylon (1998)
Character: Video-Urban
Dark satire about bare-knuckled capitalism in the immediate post-Cold War era. Set just as the Communist government is collapsing, the film focuses on the brutish Racz, the handyman in a Bratislava hotel. Knowing that his job is insured for life, Racz turns off the building's heat and demands food, money, and sex to have it restored. The film is narrated by a pimp named Urban who explains that people in the former Czechoslovakia were so used to being abused that they simply put up with Racz's corruption. By the end of the film, Racz's fortunes have changed considerably. Instead of being a lowly worker, he is now a ruthless and wealthy businessman, unafraid to kill or kidnap those who get in his way.
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Na krásnom modrom Dunaji (1994)
Character: N/A
A crazy comedy about three bohemian friends whose fascination with adventures verging on breaking the law, sexual freedom, loose entertainment and no fears of the consequences bring them even to partaking in the theft of an Andy Warhol painting.
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Chaos (2000)
Character: N/A
This satirical comedy gives a grotesque portrayal of social absurdities during the 1905 revolution in Russia. Somewhere in a remote province, the governor and the revolutionaries switch roles in order to pursue their selfish interests and conceal some serious "butter on their heads". Love affairs, fake assassination, lying as a way of existence, abuse of position, corruption and intrigue of the powerful - does this remind you of anything? If so, the resemblance is purely intentional.
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O ľuďoch a čarodejníkoch (1999)
Character: N/A
A fairytale story in which love and humanity are not just words, but become a force that words cannot describe. You won't find three identical stars in the sky, three identical stones on the earth, nor three identical beings among the wizards - the old and wise Habra, the suggestive Hobrix and the beautiful Harex watched over an imperfect, emotion-ridden human race until malice and love entered their lives as well.
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Prášky na spanie (1996)
Character: N/A
A sensitive insight into the relationship of two young people whose marriage is going through a hidden, yet dramatic crisis. Different measures of values, minor-major misunderstandings, the disappointment of a childless marriage, feelings of loneliness and guilt all cause a painful corrosion of emotional relationships. Husband and wife Bušo and Milka find their way back to each other only with difficulty, finally coming to the realisation that only a sensitive perception of each other's problems and world, mutual consideration, honesty and trust are the inspiration for life and the possibility of overcoming both professional and personal problems.
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Romulus Veľký (1992)
Character: Aemilian
A TV adaptation of a historical comedy from Dürrenmatt's early period, depicting in an ironic manner the final moments of the Roman Empire, which its emperor Romulus Augustus decides to destroy and lay at the feet of the conquering Germanic tribes.
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Stand up (2022)
Character: N/A
Mišo has a lifelong dream - to become a successful stand-up comedian. He quits his job to finally start fulfilling this dream. However, he is surprised by his niece Júlia, who arrives unannounced from the USA. Together, they embark on a stand-up tour of Slovak cities, where their dreams meet reality.
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Lóve (2011)
Character: Teacher (as Ady Hajdu)
A car thief driven by a love of cash finds his priorities shift when he falls for a college student but his conversion has dangerous consequences.
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Masaryk (2017)
Character: Oskar
In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.
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Únos (2017)
Character: N/A
The last day of the first year of the young Slovak Republic is coming to an end. Everyone is celebrating. The king of the underworld, Efendi, and the President. Only the President has nothing to celebrate. The President, who himself has trodden the path to office, refuses to appoint his clever Chalanis as Minister. The President will become uncomfortable. How to make him listen to what the President wants? The President's son is beaten up in broad daylight by an organised group and taken abroad a few months later. A young Secret Service agent, Oskar, gripped by conscience, confesses to an investigator that he took part in the abduction at the behest of his superiors...
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Chodník cez Dunaj (1989)
Character: Ticháček
In WWII, Czechoslovakia split into the Slovak State and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Former pilot Viktor Lesa works for the Slovak Railway Mail and often comes to the border town of Ludendorf, the former Czech town of Bfeclav. In order to impress a young female colleague, he redirects an important package. The Gestapo shows up in the town and Lesa together with a Jewish clerk, Tichacek, have to run for their lives . They ride a cargo train to Slovakia and they decide to escape to Hungary by crossing the Danube.
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Jak si nevzít princeznu (2021)
Character: Čeněk
A Christmas comedy-fairy tale in which Prince Leopold and Princess Josephine defy fate by vowing never to marry. When a time-travel adventure to the future goes awry, they must fight for their lives and their kingdom, only to discover, as in all fairy tales, that destiny has other plans.
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Smolu nosíš ty, láska (2023)
Character: Miro
Monika, a woman in her fifties, feels that she has reached all the important milestones in her life. Her child is grown up and she is very successful in her career as a workaholic. However, she has less and less in common with her husband, and her thoughts are increasingly returning to her youth, when she was not afraid to go off the beaten track and could appreciate the beauty of the moment. Monika decides to discover her adventurous self and enrols in a climbing course organised by Igor. He is the absolute opposite of Monika - a spontaneous and chaotic fool, a lifelong adventurer with no self-reflection and no sense of responsibility, who is mired in problems caused by his carefree lifestyle.
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Nedodržaný sľub (2009)
Character: Kramer
Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.
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Toman (2018)
Character: Valerian A. Zorin
This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.
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eŠteBák (2012)
Character: N/A
New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy couple, as well as a prosperous future. However, he soon finds out that he too is under surveillance.
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Jozef Mak (2022)
Character: N/A
Jozef Mak is illegitimate child of poor widow. He constantly withstands oppression of brother, village people and various wounds of fate. Despite of difficulties of the life, he moves on as resilient as the social class he represents.
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A máme, čo sme chceli (2023)
Character: N/A
What was supposed to be a joyful celebration over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia turns chaotic when the Varchal family discovers that their father betrayed both country and family by working for the secret police. The family members turn against each other.
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Konec svĕta (2024)
Character: hospodský
An original story told by Uncle Igor, a son of Russian aristocrats, and his nine year old grandson Tonda. A powerful story of complicated times around 1968, a story full of contrasts: Whether it is the relation between what Grandpa's plentiful life entails and Tonda's imminent children's presence, or between poetry and fine humor and dramatic situations of military occupation. Or generally between everyday worries of a person and the pressure of great history. On grandpa's life story, mapping a big part of the 20th century traumas, one can see how much an individual's fate depends on the movement and changes of history. And how much one can defy it and maintain inner firmness and integrity. Or perhaps just dear life.
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Kruté radosti (2002)
Character: Gabriel
This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with passion, and repressed and hidden emotion. It delves into the search for identity, investigating both love and hatred, while dramatizing the tragic relationship between an adolescent girl (Tatiana Pauhofová) and her ambitious father (Ondrej Vetchý). Set against the striking though simple backdrop of a picturesque, even idyllic, landscape - one ostensibly cut off from any important historical, political, or social context whatsoever - the arrival of an unwanted individual evokes the onset of a cruel drama.
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Čarovný kamienok (2019)
Character: Bendegúz
In one fairytale land, people lived contentedly for many years, they had their usual joys and worries, they enjoyed the surrounding nature, the majestic forest. In addition to wild animals, birds and butterflies, fairies, goblins, dwarves and other magical and more or less charming creatures, invisible to the human eye, lived here. The rulers of the forest gave the strigóns Bendegúz and Sebela a magical stone that had the power to fulfill human wishes. The Strigôn made a bet whether people would abuse the power of the magic stone or use it for good deeds. Accompanied by the butler Vendelín and sister Júlia, the young count Henrich arrives at the estate, whose task is to improve the property and learn how to farm. Henrich, who has huge debts and a lot of negative character traits, has a different intention. He decides to cut down the forest. However, not only the inhabitants of the forest stand in his way, but also the miller Matúš and his sister, Countess Júlia.
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Kára plná bolesti (1986)
Character: N/A
War takes its cruel toll, which everyone must pay. It hits a small Slovak village especially hard, where the struggle for a bare life becomes a test of human character. For two impoverished friends, Jakub and Maja, struggling through poverty is more than difficult. Jakub delivers sour milk from somewhere on his cart to the entire village and lives in a dilapidated house with his sister Tereza, whose caregiver and guide through life is the experienced woman Mara, who provides herself with money from seduced soldiers. Maja, on the other hand, is a foundling and homeless man who does whatever he can to survive the next day. The only consolation for the two inseparable friends are the circulating tales of a kind of promised land, where there is no poverty or hunger, and where they could both go. Only this vision, this idea alone keeps the two of them and the rest of the village on their feet, and gives them hope for a better tomorrow.
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Vojna policajtov (2024)
Character: N/A
A solitary police operative skilfully moves on the edge of the law in the wild atmosphere of the East Slovak underworld in the early 1990s.
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Jak jsme hráli čáru (2014)
Character: N/A
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naive ideas are confronted with the reality of adult's world. The film is about the first contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and about how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.
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Amnestie (2019)
Character: N/A
Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23000 prisoners. In addition to the story of three families affected by communist persecution, the film Amnesty also deals with the uprising of prisoners in Leopoldov, which required military intervention. The uprising was preceded by a broad amnesty granted by Václav Havel in January 1990, just a few days after his election as Czechoslovak president.
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Muzika (2008)
Character: Prokopec
In 1980s CSSR, depressed Martin tries to overcome the feeling of being locked up with jazz music.
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Dôverný nepriateľ (2018)
Character: Boss
Andrej, a programmer, is developing his smart house project. To perfect his program, he moved with his wife Zuzana to a test house. He strives to introduce a bonus into the program - care for his wife. Suddenly someone else, someone mysterious takes control of the program. The idyll of a perfect life is replaced by a nightmare and a struggle for survival.
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Pani Dokonalá (2018)
Character: N/A
At 43, Inge Jung thinks she has it all. A great career in a multinational company, friends, unerring judgement and self-confidence. Until betrayal strikes and Inge loses everything she's loved about her life in one moment. She loses her job, her car and her apartment after an unexpected layoff, but it's only the first slap of fate that sets off a cruel roller coaster of knowledge. After exhausting all options, she decides to move to central Slovakia to an old inheritance house in a secluded area near a small town. In her new surroundings, she receives a kindly upbringing that melts her stony heart and hard head. In addition, an attractive neighbour, Martin, who has long since left a life as a graphic designer in London, enters her life...
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Polčas rozpadu (2007)
Character: Valér
A contemporary tragicomedy from a modern city about disintegration of relationship, disintegration of a marriage, and maybe also about the disappearance of basic rules from decent life. A very black comedy about people in their 40ies who already have money, but still listen to rock and roll, exchanging drugs for mobile phones.
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Spievankovo a kráľovná Harmónia (2017)
Character: N/A
The fairy-tale land of Spievankovo is ruled by the kind-hearted Queen Harmony. Her mission is to ensure that music, singing, and good cheer never disappear from the land. However, music has somehow become alien to the inhabitants of Spievankovo, the musical instruments have fallen into dust, the singing has died down, and the good cheer has evaporated. Harmony therefore calls on Spievank and Zahrajko to help her bring back the lost desire to play, sing, and dance to the land, and thus save the soul of all of Spievankovo.
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Bourák (2020)
Character: N/A
The fictional town of Šlukdorf. Here lives a car mechanic who calls himself Bourák. He loves rock and roll, dance, his own gelled hair and, despite being in his fifties, simply “refuses to grow up”. He forgets he has a wife. The only things he loves are Elvis, Cadillacs and anything connected with 1950s America. His daughter Kamila is fed up with life in the squalid town and with her irresponsible father. She is fed up with working in a casino with no windows, open round the clock; that her mother has caught the eye of the local gangster, who is clearly a dimwit; with her father behaving as if he has gone completely barmy. Kamila realizes she has to do something about it. She has to confront her parents with reality, as cruel as that may seem. A black comedy about everything that can happen because of a summer storm, a set of golf clubs, rock and roll, and one incredibly angry daughter.
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