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Suzanne (1996)
Character: Chlap so psom
A film about the lives of drug addicts. A story of love and falling into the abyss that has no bottom. At the same time, the story of a father who rescues his daughter from the arms of "sweet death".
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Očovské pastorále (1973)
Character: N/A
The story of a peasant whose harshness and bluntness only provoke disputes and anger, and his honesty and sense of truth and honor in conjunction with the previous qualities only exacerbate these disputes. The Slovak village with its collective farming, confronted with the habits of a square nature, raised by private farming, creates the main plot and conflict. In parallel, there is a lyrical motif of the young generation, whose love relationships do not care about the old ridiculous anger of the old generation.
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Príbeh Mateja Hóza (1993)
Character: N/A
TV adaptation of Vincent Šikula's novel "Ornament". The author, a little bit nostalgically, a little bit with ironic-critical detachment, drew his attention to a serious period of our modern history - the beginning of the fifties. The story of a somewhat unadorned, somewhat idealistic student of the philosophical faculty Matej Hoz and a young priest Jože Patúc, hiding from an unjust law, becomes an interesting testimony about a short period of the recent life of our society, but above all a testimony that no time can destroy the good and beautiful things that most people carry within themselves.
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Prípad na vidieku (1993)
Character: N/A
Today‘s eastern Slovakia. The historian Rimko returns here after many years with his young lover to search for answers to the difficult questions of his own life attitudes, mistakes and moral debts in the land of his childhood. His life seems to be balanced even in the hectic times of political changes of recent years. Having worked for twenty years as an expert on the Middle Ages, he feels himself to be a decent man, moderately successful in his profession, and ultimately attractive in his maturity and discretion to his much younger partner. And yet he is eager to prove to himself and his former friends that it is possible to catch up and pay off old debts. Even the seemingly idyllic setting for a beautiful holiday is marred by the brutality of the times - a military defector with stolen ammunition desperately seeks refuge.
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My z deviatej A (1962)
Character: Mushroom-picker
A contemporary story about the emotional maturation of fifteen-year-olds, their relationships with school and their future profession. A secret group of "Timurs" works at the school, which condemns shortcomings in behavior and works for the benefit of the students. Against the background of their detective work, the relationship between Ivan and Dana develops, which is disrupted by Dana's irreversible vision defect.
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Most na tú stranu (1962)
Character: N/A
When the young heroine joins a large factory, she has difficulty adapting to the local environment and experiences a series of conflicts before finally joining the work team. This is an exemplary illustration of the thesis that only work truly humanizes a person and helps them find spiritual balance.
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Výhybka (1963)
Character: N/A
A story of two old friends, who after ten years - one as the deputy director and the other as the chairman of the party organization - meet on a large construction site.
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Pre mňa nehrá blues (1965)
Character: N/A
The freshly graduated engineer gradually sobers up from his student ideals and encounters a different reality than he had expected. Few people understand his resistance to the established conditions in a prosperous company, and the hero's personal conflicts with his superiors deepen. He recognises hypocrisy: people say something different from what they really think. He encounters sycophancy and calculation whether he stays in the country or moves to the big city.
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Skalní v ofsajde (1961)
Character: N/A
Three soccer fans are determined to do literally anything to get to the soccer match between Czechoslovakia and the famous representation team of Brazil. Reaching their goal to see the dream match live cannot he precluded neither by a sudden work task nor family obligations. However, there is one more obstacle in their way: for some time, their enthusiastic behavior during soccer matches has been monitored by the police. This time, it will not be easy for them to get to the stadium.
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Výlet po Dunaji (1963)
Character: Hraško
A group of Slovak tourists travels to Budapest on a luxury liner with a trio of eternal fortune-tellers, the former customs officer Hraško, the flirtatious Irena Domastová, who is divorcing her husband, the Petráš family, the old Mr. Garbiarik and the elegant Mr. Belan. Each of them, however, is pursuing other, their own interests on this voyage...
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Zypa Cupak (1976)
Character: N/A
Zypa Cupak - with this strangely distorted name, the arduous journey of father Ďur to his nephew's wedding in Belgrade begins. After all, not understanding a foreign language can mean great difficulties and many misunderstandings. And although father Ďur is helped everywhere to reach his destination, he cannot avoid problematic situations.
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Pod vládou ženy aj na svitaní (1993)
Character: N/A
A story based on two short stories by the Slovak classic Martin Kukučín, which in a humorous and kindly tone brings closer the nature of our people.
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A ešte dve frašky... (1998)
Character: N/A
The two farces Korhel and The Adulterer are a continuation of the television adaptation of two farces by Jonáš Záborský from 1978. Through the kindly character of Jonah Záborský, with the help of an angelic school, we embark on a journey with the devil to reform drunks and adulterers.
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Volanie démonov (1968)
Character: N/A
In Slovakia, they also created a pair of investigators who have appeared in several films. Volanie démonov is the third of them. The police officers, one Maigret-like, thoughtful, the other humorously hasty, this time solve a fire in a furniture factory and the deaths of two employees - one burned himself, the other fell into a dry well. The investigation of the complicated case takes a long time, but in the end it turns out that revenge can be extraordinarily strong and persistent.
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Druhá láska (1977)
Character: Šolc
The television production is an episode from the life of Andrej Sládkovič. Braxatoris, known as Sládkovič, comes to Banská Štiavnica and wants to find the inspiration for his poetry - Marína. Her parents reject him. Marína marries Gerža, a rich merchant. Sládkovič finds affection and understanding with Antonia, whom he marries...
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Mikuláš Mráz (1995)
Character: N/A
The story of Mr. Nicholas, a lonely old pensioner, begins the moment he decides to make children's dreams come true. As a temporary worker, he works at the post office, where letters addressed to St Nicholas have been piling up since the end of November. The post office workers put them in an old banana box and nobody notices them anymore. After all, who has time for such stupidity. It is only Nicholas Frost, in whose name the persons to whom the letters are addressed are associated, who thinks that this year he will make at least a few children in the house and on the street where he lives happy. And so he buys sweets and, with the help of a young student he has taken in at his place, starts delivering sweet parcels...
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Predjarie (1961)
Character: N/A
During the Slovak National Uprising, even ordinary people were determined to perform heroic deeds, even though they knew they were exposing themselves to great danger. The heroine of this film, a simple country woman, has a hard time paying for her bravery: she is sentenced to death, postponed for now so that she can nurse her recently born baby. She is even offered salvation if she betrays, but the presence of a member of the Soviet army infuses her with determination and hope. Early Spring belongs to the usual schematic, lifeless staged views of the subject that the communist regime has elevated to the level of sacred matter.
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V hodine dvanástej (1959)
Character: accountant
Nazi soldiers committed atrocities even when sober – and if they got drunk, they did even worse. The inhabitants of a Slovak village during the national uprising learn this when they have to accept an arrogant Hitlerite guard. When two soldiers go missing, the unit commander threatens to have five hostages executed for each of them as a warning. And he refuses to change his order, even when it turns out that drunkenness is to blame for the unfortunate incident. But the villagers get justifiably angry and take up arms.
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Ako sa Vinco zaťal (1977)
Character: N/A
An unconventionally seen story from the period of the Slovak National Uprising will especially interest you with the character of the village lad and brawler Vince Kucek, played by Ivan Romančík. Hours and hours spent in the pub, riots with friends, scenes of jealousy towards his old rival Petr Chuťek, now a partisan commander, hostile memories of the strict teacher Machoň – all this fills the seemingly carefree days of the self-confident farmer, father of two small children, husband of the faithful, devoted Eva. However, the situation in the village is getting worse. Some of the men go to fight in the mountains, but the stubborn Kucek refuses to go with them.
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Cukor (1982)
Character: N/A
A TV film based on Karol Horák's novel. The story takes place in southern Gemer in the spring of 1945. It covers several days in the first months after the war. Matyla, a simple village woman, sets out into the world to get sugar for her daughter and her unborn child. A film about a mother, which is a testimony about people and an era from the perspective of the current middle generation.
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Rivers of Babylon (1998)
Character: N/A
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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Stratená dolina (1977)
Character: N/A
The story of two friends and managers of a mountain hut. The central theme of the film is nature conservation and environmental protection. Friends Mišo and Dušan, who love the Tatras, try to preserve "their" valley as one of the last corners of nature untouched by tourism. They do it with sincere enthusiasm, but only with the means at hand. They settle accounts with sneaky hikers.
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Tango pre medveďa (1967)
Character: N/A
The unhappy and desperate director of the Šúpala Zoo tries to sell a sick bear to a foreign tourist for shooting, because the purchase of other animals for the ZOO is only possible with anti-socialist currency, i.e. hard currency, and so the administrator does everything possible and impossible just to get them...
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Zrelá mladosť (1983)
Character: N/A
Biographical film about the work of the young Klement Gottwald. The story depicts his stay in Banská Bystrica, where he edited the Slovak communist press and helped organise the communist revolutionary movement.
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Pán a hvezdár (1960)
Character: N/A
On this naive and awkwardly narrated fairy tale it is remarkable that it also established the tradition of fairy tale stories in Slovakia. A certain refinement is the framing of the whole story with a puppet show that moves into the played scenes. The film carries out a folk tale of a stupid castle lord who lives in a ruined castle, a fraudulent painter and a lazy shepherd.
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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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Zlatá priadka (1975)
Character: pokladník
TV film inspired by folk tale of Pavol. Once upon a time, was the girl. Hank poor but hard-working. Once she rubbed with royal greatest misery, appeared magical elf Martinko Klingáč.
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Princezná v ježovej koži (1994)
Character: Pustovník
The hero of the tale, based on Samuel Czambel's story, is banished from his home because of laziness - let him learn something in the world. Who knows how he would have turned out if he hadn't accidentally acquired four miraculous things that can make one full, overpower the enemy and make one invisible. Thanks to them, he falls into the king's favour and is about to marry a princess. But she robs him of all the miraculous things and turns him into a laughing stock. But because justice always prevails in a fairy tale, our hero finds a way to punish the princess. The old hermit's advice, strange pears and even stranger apples will help him...
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Kováč Juraj (2001)
Character: N/A
The story tells of a statue in Pribino Square in Nitra, to which the inhabitants and ancient legend attribute the qualities of the brave blacksmith Juraj Corgoň. Driven by his love for his girl and his hometown, Juraj, with his courage, strength and bravery, helped to avert one of the dangerous Turkish raids on Nitra in the 17th century.
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Domovníkov syn (1993)
Character: N/A
TV transcript of the fairy tale story H. Ch. Andersen's fairytale story about the desire for happiness and the need to forgive in order to find true happiness. Two families lived in one house - a rich general and his daughter Emilia upstairs, and his landlord and his son George in the basement apartment. The two children liked each other very much, but their friendship was thwarted by Emilie's mother. So when one day the rich patron discovered Georg's talent and took him with him to Italy, Georg carried a piece of bitterness in his heart. When he returned some time later as a successful and famous painter, he could not resist returning his humiliation to the impoverished general's family. But love is stronger than revenge...
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Stopy na Sitne (1969)
Character: N/A
Slovak partisans, bravely fighting against Nazi superiority, would never have succeeded to such an extent if they had not been supported by the villagers. Despite the threat of repression, it is the villagers who care for the wounded, hide them, and behave conscientiously. Although the film was made in the late 1960s, it fully adopts the patterns of partisan stories, perhaps the only thing it can be credited with is a more developed sense of authenticity in the story, characters, and setting.
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S Rozarkou (1970)
Character: N/A
The tragic fate of a mentally disabled girl with the mental capacity of a child, who is taken in by her older brother Ondrej after her mother's death. Ondrej resolves complicated and disharmonious situations in their coexistence by telling various stories.
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Pták Ohnivák (1997)
Character: N/A
The sick King Jorgen worries about the marriage of his daughter Elena. The fairytale-like, dramatic confusion triggers a shimmering golden fire bird with its wondrous song every full moon night - it makes the king heal and brings the "good" prince as husband of the "good" Princess Elena.
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Bratia (1962)
Character: N/A
A bricklayer, Jozef Haviar, decides to live with his family on the small farm of his father through the difficult years of the economic crisis. But on his return to his father's house he gets into a conflict with his brother. The life-and-death conflict between the two brothers documents the difficult situation of Slovak country life in the 1930s, the time of economic depression.
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Tri gaštanové kone (1966)
Character: N/A
Magdaléna, pure-hearted and guided by emotion, attracts Zápotočný, a callous egoist and abuser. Their turbulent relationship, set against a backdrop of social hardship, forces Magdaléna to confront the limits of compassion and the price of innocence when faced with brutal selfishness.
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Jožko Púčik a jeho kariéra (1983)
Character: Adam
The TV adaptation of Ivan Stodola's satirical theatre comedy tells the story of a shy charity official who is looking forward to a definitive life with a charming colleague. One day, however, in return for a promised favor, he confesses to the embezzlement of three thousand crowns, which his womanizing boss "borrowed" from the treasury. When forty thousand disappears from his table, Jožko Púčik is automatically considered a thief and ends up in custody. The man passively accepts his fate because he believes in justice. Moreover, charitable associations begin to get ahead of themselves in paying support for him and his poor sister. However, the existing accusations are also added to the accusation of murdering the janitor. Jožko has a lot to do to convince the investigating judge that he is an honest man. However, as it turns out, this is the worst thing Púčik could have done...
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Sebechlebskí hudci (1975)
Character: N/A
Two Sebechleby musicians, Peter and Jakub, and their guardian Klimo set out in the mid-17th century to rescue the noblewoman Dóciová, abducted by Ottoman raiders into Istanbul. Lacking language skills and guidance, they rely on courage, wit and their newly enchanted instruments to overcome dangers.
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