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Postav dom, zasaď strom (1980)
Character: Samo
Juraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.
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Jeden stříbrný (1976)
Character: N/A
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.
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Keby som mal dievča (1976)
Character: N/A
Vlado has just passed his high school diploma and is starting a job as a home tutor in the family of a big businessman. He finds himself in a very difficult turning point in 1947-48. He does not understand much of what is happening around him. He constantly experiences emotional confusion, comes into conflict with his conscience and finally has to decide between love and reason...
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Penelopa (1978)
Character: N/A
An emancipated restorer restores rare castle frescoes in an ancient village with figures of ancient heroines - and one of them, Penelope, resembles an old woman who has been waiting for the return of her husband and son for forty years, who have supposedly gone to work in America.
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Vták nociar (1981)
Character: N/A
Many films have received almost no audience response at the time of their release in cinemas - this one is one of them. The story of a sick writer who returns to his native region to gain new physical and mental strength, however, did not impress, it is too artificial, with dialogues and plots rustling paper. It lacks both a believable depiction of the main character's mood and adequate realization certainty, the hero's silent discussions with the personified Inspiration sound cumbersome.
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Koncert pre pozostalých (1977)
Character: N/A
A picture of generational confrontations between children and parents. A young and ambitious violin virtuoso, Peter, lives in long-lasting conflicts with his father. Only after his death Peter realizes how much he had been hurting his father. Still, not even the tragedy can make a change in his shallow life in stereotype.
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Pavilón šeliem (1983)
Character: N/A
A young man named Milan arrives at the zoo, having decided to study veterinary medicine. He meets his older colleague Kalman, a tough and cruel zookeeper who despotically controls not only the animals but also the people around him. From that moment on, their paths in life constantly cross, and the tension between them grows, also due to their shared interest in the same woman.
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Horúčka (1975)
Character: N/A
A psychological story of a young printing house leader and his subordinates and a "dangerous contract from the West".
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Predčasné leto (1983)
Character: N/A
Premature motherhood causes serious emotional and psychological problems; the young mother, deceived in her first, still naive love, thinks that she has not yet enjoyed anything and already has to take care of the baby. Even finishing high school becomes a big problem, which requires a lot of self-sacrifice.
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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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Ženský vtip (1996)
Character: statkár
Magdalene has everything except one little thing: money. But the beautiful and wise daughter of a poor peasant knows that one day, the day will surely come when everything will turn around for the better. It sounds unbelievable at first, but her father's current troubles may be Magdalene's redemption. For when the young judge rules against him, it is Magdalene who writes an appeal against the decision. And the judge can't wait to meet the author of such a perfectly worded objection. When she appears at his door, the judge doesn't hesitate for a second to embarrass her by offering her the opportunity to join his service. At this point, however, the question stands quite differently...
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Nevera po slovensky (1981)
Character: N/A
Jakubisko’s comedy about infidelity inside the community of lumberjacks in three chapters. First, a group of men gets to know that there comes a group of female brigadiers to a near village and tries to seduce them, which won’t come out as precisely as they wanted. In the next chapter, one girl got pregnant and lumberjacks tries to solve this by a wedding to a man called Domino. In the final phase, they’re struggling for the successful wedding and are afraid of possible punishment from their wives.
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Rabaka (1989)
Character: N/A
A popular band called Rabaka, portrayed by members of Elán (Jožo Ráž and Jano Baláž), faces internal conflicts leading to their breakup. Set against the backstage of the music scene, the film follows their struggles with fame, personal tensions, and creative differences. After time apart, the former bandmates confront past grievances and rediscover their passion for performance, ultimately deciding to reunite and return to the concert stage.
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Koža (1976)
Character: N/A
An original television play set in a village setting about an honest young man, Miš, who is credited with punishing his greedy neighbors - the village herald and his wife, who find a cauldron with gold ducats in an abandoned log cabin in the forest.
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O dievčine Rozprávočke (1980)
Character: Miller
Little Peter goes to his grandparents' house for the holidays, but he forgets to take his storybook with him.
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Zlatý kolovrátok (1995)
Character: N/A
The story tells about a girl who was poor, but on the other hand so good and hardworking that she received a special gift from fate. A spinning wheel on which she could spin golden threads. And there was a count who liked her, but he liked the gold she brought with her to his house even better. And because he was greedy and wanted more and more gold, he decided that he too would weave the threads, even if his fingers were to fall off. And so he wove and wove, forgetting all that was good and beautiful around him. The girl, his friends, the whole world. But until then, the golden threads are woven, until the yarn breaks and fate says enough...
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Nevěsta k zulíbání (1981)
Character: N/A
A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked side by side for years only as colleagues, but whose accidental trip to Slovakia to attend the wedding of Hedin's sister brought them closer, probably for the rest of their lives...
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Smrť chodí po horách (1979)
Character: N/A
A television film, an adaptation of Vladimír Mináč's first novel. The dramatic story of two brothers during the Slovak National Uprising provides artistic testimony to authentic events from the Slovak mountains in 1944.
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Skon Paľa Ročku (1985)
Character: N/A
A television production based on Bozena Slančíková-Timrava's short stories about social and moral conditions in a Slovak village in the 1930s.
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Javor a Juliana (1973)
Character: N/A
A girl is transformed into a maple tree by her impulsive and angry mother. Three poor wandering musicians come by the tree and create instruments from it. Walking around the country instead of happiness they bring death everywhere with their cursed instruments. However they cannot get rid of them, unless they bury the wooden instruments at the place of the tree. The three are anything but harmonious, each taking in their disputes various stances.
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Roztancované kráľovstvo (1974)
Character: N/A
Once upon a time there was a king who had only one daughter. However, his kingdom was sad because the old king was always grumpy. Moreover, he liked to eat boiled duck, of course. There was no one left in the kingdom, so he decided that whoever brought him his delicacy would get the princess as his wife.
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Zlaté časy (1979)
Character: Butcher
The drama of the last days of the second world war through the eyes of children in rural areas.
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Mŕtvi nespievajú (1965)
Character: N/A
A two-part television film based on the novel of the same name by Rudolf Jašík, depicting a realistic picture of life and interpersonal relationships during World War II in the mixed Slovak-German environment of the town of Pravna and the nearby village of Planice, as well as life and relationships between soldiers on the Eastern Front. From this perspective, the plot follows a unit of Slovak soldiers, their realisation that they are fighting for foreign interests, their dissatisfaction and distrust of everything, especially their officers.
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Je třeba zabít Sekala (1998)
Character: Včelný
ComiBaran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.
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Orbis Pictus (1997)
Character: N/A
In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.
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Explózia (1982)
Character: N/A
Television film about people who are actively involved in the Slovak national uprising in 1944. A screen adaptation of the novel by Rudo Moritz in 1951.
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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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Otec (1981)
Character: N/A
Small Yozko, who lives with his mother, dreams of a real father, whose ideal is embodied in a tractor motorcyclist on Formula nickname. However, his mother perceives cheerful cool formula, finding it, like many villagers, frivolous. Friendship Formula fills the boy his father's absence, and Yozko increasingly tied to his friend. Suddenly received a telegram from the actual Yozko father, his mother will have to take a difficult decision, but life itself makes adjustments ...
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Soľ nad zlato (1983)
Character: N/A
A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruška, fails her father's expectations about proving how deep her love him is. He misunderstands her and she is made to leave the castle. She faces many dangers on the way to her loved one, the Salt Prince.
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Keby som mal pušku (1971)
Character: N/A
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
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Dolina (1973)
Character: N/A
A dramatic story of the emotional, moral and political maturation of two young people during the Slovak National Uprising.
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