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Advokátka (1978)
Character: N/A
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.
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Priehrada (1950)
Character: Parson
The construction of a large dam in Slovakia is hindered by the influence of small farmers on the landowner Bujna, on whom they depend for help with the harvest and for monetary loans.
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Dom na rázcestí (1959)
Character: Karol Kortan
Because abortions required complicated approvals, an enterprising doctor secretly set up a sort of private practice where she offered this "service" illegally. However, the sympathetic doctor who was supposed to become a valuable helper in this business flatly refuses.
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Žena z Vrchov (1956)
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A dramatic story of a young woman, Mária Kedrová, who gradually breaks free from her humiliating position in her family and society in the post-war years. Tired of the inhumane work and tyranny on behalf of her husband's kulak family, after endless humiliation, she leaves the Kedrová house with her son Martin to start living her own life.
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Hájnikova žena (1971)
Character: narrator, advokát Michala Čajku
The dramatization of P. O. Hviezdoslav's epic is a celebration of the moral purity of the Slovak people. Through the trial of gamekeeper Michal Čajka, who is on trial for the murder of young Mr. Artuš, we follow in retrospect the events leading up to the trial.
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Timon Aténsky (1973)
Character: N/A
A television adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the destructive power of wealth. Timon, a rich and generous Athenian citizen, gives gifts to his friends generously and magnanimously. He helps everyone in need, regardless of their status. However, he is surrounded by false friends who refuse to help him when his coffers are empty and his barrels no longer overflow with wine. The attitude of his friends shakes his faith in the goodness of humanity, and he retreats to a cave on the seashore, where he dies by his own hand, cursing the entire human race. Even the famous warrior Alcibiades knows the ingratitude of Athens. When he speaks on behalf of a soldier sentenced to death for a minor offense, the senators expel him from the city. Alcibiades, a man of action, does not give up, defeats Athens, and conquers it. However, he finds Timon already dead.
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Čertova stena (1949)
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Two roommates – Ivan Trnovský, a university student from a wealthy family, and Petr Gazdík, a young composer, try to win the affections of a young teacher, Hanka. She teaches schoolchildren to ski, and Ivan arranges a Christmas stay with her in the Tatra Mountains, in a cottage under the Devil's Wall...
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Smrť prichádza v daždi (1966)
Character: N/A
A Slovak detective story set in contemporary Bratislava and featuring ordinary people with their own everyday problems. The violent death of Olga Holešová places them under heavy suspicion of murder. A series of strange coincidences and circumstances complicate the investigators' work. Her husband's infidelity, the loss of a large sum of money that the treasurer Fiala is supposed to replace, a lawyer earning extra money by doing various odd jobs - all these are confusing clues, among which investigator Jakubec eventually finds a thread that will lead him to the correct solution to the case.
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Muž ktorý sa nevrátil (1959)
Character: N/A
Police Lieutenant Vlado Hronec, together with the curious journalist Zvar, first search for the thief of important production documents, which they might be interested in even behind the Iron Curtain. At first, they think that engineer Kovalský stole them and fled with them across the border. However, when it is discovered that someone killed Kovalský, they have to start the investigation all over again...
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Oceľová cesta (1950)
Character: Commentary (voice)
Documentary film about the Slovak Youth Line - a railway line built by the Czechoslovak youth from Hronská Dúbrava to Báňská Štiavnica and Letovice.
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Leto pod Kriváňom (1943)
Character: Commentator (voice)
An unusually photogenic ethnographic film about the rhythm of summer work - mowing meadows in Liptov with a scythe.
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Pole neorané (1954)
Character: N/A
The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Peter Jilemnický is a drama about the life of poor Kysuce miners, which takes place in the thirties during the economic crisis. During the peak wave of emigration, the dream of a better life drives thousands of people to America for work. Others, in order to support their families, leave for the surrounding towns. Produced by the Bratislava Art Film Studio, studios and laboratories Bratislava - Koliba.
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Cid (1974)
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Ximéná and Rodrigo love each other, but in order to remain worthy of each other, they decide to fulfill the command of honor. Don Rodrigo avenges the insult that Ximéná's father caused his father, and Ximéná asks the king to punish Rodrigo. The king forgives Rodrigo-Cid for killing Ximéná's father, Don Gómez, in the name of the honor of his family, because Rodrigo will save the land from the Moorish invasion.
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Ežo Vlkolinský (1978)
Character: N/A
The TV dramatization of PO Hviezdoslav's epic tells of a time when the feudal system as a social force begins to disappear. Its only salvation is to merge with the people. Ežo is a supporter of this idea.
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Gábor Vlkolinský (1978)
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The television dramatization of Pavel Országh Hviezdoslav's epic addresses the issue of the relations between nobles and squires towards the common people and presents the squires with a single alternative - either side with the people or perish.
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Vlčie diery (1948)
Character: French guerilla François
This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants.
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Kocúrkovo (1971)
Character: N/A
A story in which the author mocks the Slovak petty bourgeoisie and denounces the denationalization of the gentry in the nineteenth century. Some problems such as patronage, bribery, and imitation of foreign models sound surprisingly simultaneous.
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Štvorylka (1956)
Character: Zoltán Lálik
A comedy film taking an ironic view of the bourgeois period prior to the First World War.
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Posledná bosorka (1957)
Character: Trnavský richtár Ignác Zartl
This dramatic story is situated in the town of Trnava of the 18th century. Painter Peter paints an altar-piece of the Martyrdom of St. Juliet and his model is a young girl. This is much disliked by the clergy who unjustly accuse the girl of witchcraft. She is saved from being burnt at a stake by the students of the Trnava University.
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Poéma o svedomí (1979)
Character: Poem (voice)
Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944.
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Štyridsaťštyri (1958)
Character: N/A
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.
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Maškaráda (1981)
Character: N/A
A poetic-psychological composition depicting the fate of an elderly man who succumbed to false social information, which drove him to a tragic act.
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Obchod na korze (1965)
Character: Imro Kuchár (voice)
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
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Rok na dedine (1968)
Character: M. Chvojka
The film presents a parade of customs, music, songs and dances of the Slovak people in four seasons, based on a theatre play by I. Teren and K.L. Zachar from the first years after the liberation.
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Bílá tma (1948)
Character: N/A
A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.
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Katka (1950)
Character: Jožko
Strong-willed peasant girl Katka disobeys her father and heads to the city to work in a factory, where no one knows quite what to make of her.
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Jánošík (1963)
Character: Dráb Zubor
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.
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