This DVD contains 16 animated films from the period of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The selection includes all the leading filmmakers of the contemporary history of Slovak animated film and all the major creative techniques, styles and poetics that the presented animators represent in their works.

Twenty-year-old Šimon moves out of his parents´ house to start his journey of self-discovery. Soon, he meets Viktor and Mária who draw his into their complicated relationship, maintained on the border of tenderness and cruelty. Once he knows more about their past, he learns to understand them better.

A drama about a legendary rebellion of Slovak troops of the 71st regiment who rise against the officers of the Austro-Hungarian army stationed in the Serbian town of Kragujevac during World War One. The film is an open criticism of the absurdity of military conflicts and an expression of spontaneous resistance against aggression and violence. The story also pays homage to all those who found the courage to oppose the war regardless of the consequences and revolt against its ruthless and inhuman nature.

The Man Who Lies (1968)
A film built on constant confrontation of truth and lies, reality and pretension, the word and the image. The protagonist is a stranger who arrives in a small Slovak town. He mystifies the locals with his engaging, though often quite unbelievable stories about the hero of the resistance movement, gaining the admiration and affection of several women in the process. Jean-Louis Trintignant won the Best Actor award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1968.

Eden and After (1970)
Café Eden is the meeting place of a group of bored, apathetic students. One night, a stranger walks in and lures them into a strange game. He takes them away to an exotic land far away after giving all of them some psychotropic substance with the effect that they lose the ability of telling the difference between illusions and reality. They become witnesses and participants of acts of sexual aggression and violence, all of which may be real just as well as drug-induced fantasies.

Vivid portraits of old people from the Slovak regions of Liptov and Orava, who live in inner freedom despite the surrounding civilizational chaos. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinček, Dušan Hanák used his genuine sensitivity in his portrayal of his truly unique characters, their original attitudes to life, and their admirable innocence.

A lyrical story about a man whose life reflects the annual, endlessly repeating cycle of nature. With the onset of spring he becomes a child again, in summer he matures to adulthood and in autumn, the period of commencing ol age, he slowly loses his vigour. At lenght, he retires for the winter far from civilisation, to a distant shepherd´s hut, where he sleeps until the new year and, thereby, his rebirth.