The third part of the Garden Store trilogy takes place at the end of the 1950s. It is a story of love, this time love between lovers. It tells the story of the silent war between parents and their children marked by the war and the communist coup. Suitor outlines, from a tragicomic distance, the […]
A book written by a former SS officer, detailing his time and deeds in Slovakia, falls into the hands of the interpreter, Ali Ungár. He realises that the SS officer is responsible for the death of his parents. He travels to Vienna but, in place of the killer, he finds only his son, Georg, a […]
Milan (40), a guest-worker in Germany, discovers that, back home in Slovakia, his teenage son has become involved with home-grown militias when he is accused of bullying and killing a classmate. The father starts to seek out the truth about what happened, the truth about himself…
The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants […]
On faith, hope and sacrifice. He wanted to escape from the world into a monastery, but he had to flee in order to save his life and to understand how brutal political power distorts the character and, at the same time, offers a last chance to resist and to save a loved one.
Just before World War I, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of […]
The first part of the Garden Store trilogy is a melodrama set in the 1940s during the German occupation. Three young women and two children are waiting for the return of their imprisoned husbands and fathers. Jiří, a family friend and doctor, selflessly helps this family community thrown together by the war. The Family Friend […]
It’s spring 1939. The bishop in Banská Bystrica finds out that in the village of Piargy, buried by an avalanche a few days previously, the Antichrist was born. The bishop calls on the priest Baláž and asks him to investigate the statements of Johanka, the only survivor of the catastrophe. Baláž wants to know exactly […]
Zuzana and Andrej, a young married couple move from Bratislava to the Tatras to test out Andrej’s life-work, the prototype of a smart house. However, the idyll of a perfect life driven by modern technology is soon transformed into a nightmare and a fight for life. The revolutionary server created to make its owners’ lives […]