In recent Slovak history, there’s scarcely any more significant a figure than Vladimír Mečiar. Director Tereza Nvotová approaches him from several different directions. One is an interview that she conducted with him face-to-face, another is his narrative monologue that presents Slovak history against the backdrop of his own family history, and finally through archival images […]
A local pub in a small town. It’s Monday and the bar is closed, the chairs are stacked upside down on the tables. The pub is empty except for six amateur actors sitting in a corner. They’ve met to rehearse “The Insect Play” by the Čapek brothers. On a raised platform across the room we […]
The marriage of Milan and Táňa Labát is going through a crisis. Their 16-year-old daughter Lenka takes their alienation very hard. But one night will change their lives forever. Lenka is celebrating her 16th birthday, but she never returns home. Milan decides to take the search for his daughter into his own hands. Filled with […]
After her husband’s death, Hana continues to reside in the family villa, by herself. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Broňa, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens up before her. Broňa’s team-mates absorb her into their team and […]
A retired civil engineer, Duszejko, lives a secluded life in a mountain village close to the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. She is charismatic and eccentric, a passionate astrologer and a strict vegetarian. One day her beloved dogs disappear. On a snowy winter’s night shortly afterwards, she discovers the dead body of her […]
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Jan is a veterinarian in his sixties getting tired of life. The suicide of his father-in-law who lost his will to live is the last drop to his depressive state of mind. Jan realizes that he is following in his footsteps and if he doesn´t do anything soon, he will end up the very same […]
A story about a father and son concealed within one man. It is a story of taking stock of one’s life. Of humility and recovery. Of the renaissance of the soul. An exposed singer is the main hero of the story. His borderline conditions and several other circumstances land him in hospital. During the first […]
Since the arrival of new teacher Maria Drazdechova to a Bratislava suburban school in 1983, life has turned upside down for students and parents. The teacher’s corrupt behavior, and a student’s suicide attempt that could be related to it, makes the Principal call the students’ parents for an urgent meeting that will suddenly put all […]