A story of a family that after WWII moved to the south of Slovakia and acquired a prosperous butcher business left behind by a Hungarian emigrant. From the previous owner, the family also inherited a self-assured, greedy assistant who does not like to observe any firm moral principles. He assists the family in gaining wealth but in the long run, he causes the family´s moral dissolution. In his most successful feature film, director Zoro Záhon combined a complex drama with excellent acting performances, especially that of Hungarian actor Gábor Koncz in the lead role.  

A tragicomic story from a rural setting was based on the collection of short stories by Milka Zimková, who was also cast in the lead role. The lives of Johana Ovšená and her illegitimate daughter Pavlína seem to copy each other. Johana, a single mother, watches her daughter make the same mistake as she herself had made in the past. The makers of the film had very good knowledge of village life. Štefan Uher´s film is an authentic picture of the way of life, regional traditions, and mentality of people from eastern Slovakia. 

Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor, village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches its climax in the closing shoot-out. Instead of the Wild West, the gunshots go off on the Slovak-Polish border. Michal Dočolomanský as the horse smuggler and Radoslav Brzobohatý as the customs officer from Prague meet in Hollý´s Night Riders in a western-like confrontation set in the insecure years of the newly founded Czechoslovak Republic. 

After The Assistant, The Southern Mail is the second novel of Ladislav Ballek to be adapted to the movie screen. It is set in a fictitious border town in the south of Slovakia shrotly after WWII, when the new state borders were just drawn on the maps. The recollections of a forty-year-old author about his childhood take us back to the 1940s. We see the un-certain times, the conflicts, and the colorful characters of the mulit-cultural region of southern Slovakia through the wondering eyes of a five-year-old boy. 

A tragicomic film about people from the social periphery. Director Dušan Hanák portrayed his characters with a sensitive understanding, without romanticizing. That was also why the film, similarly to Hanák´s previous works 322 and Pictures of the Old World, ended up on a shelf until 1988. Impressive performances are given by the Czech actress Iva Janžurová, Polish actor Roman Klosowski and Serbian actor Milan Jelič. In 1989, the film won a Silver Bear for Best Directing from the IFF Berlin. 

A story of a young student of medicine, who arrives in a small mountain village after being accused for carrying out illegal abortion. The film reflects the moral decline of the society, where stealing in secret and making compromises against one´s beliefs make up mundane reality. The filmmakers went to perhaps the furthest possible limits in terms of allowed social criticism in the 1980s. The negative picture is enhanced by its rural setting, since the Slovak village had been traditionally associated with strict morals and conservative values. 

A joint work of three debuting directors. It is a film about former rock musicians, members of a banned rock band. The friends were forced to replace their ideals by settled family lives and ordinary jobs. When their former lead singer has to go to hospital for therapy, they get an unexpected opportunity to play together again and recall the old times. The day when all needs to be arranged fot he performance is full of small lies, compromises, and morally doubtful decisions. 

In WWII, Czechoslovakia splint into the Slovak State and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Former pilot Viktor Lesa works for the Slovak Railway Mail and often comes to the border town of Ludendorf, the former Czech town of Břeclav. In order to impress a young female colleague, he redirects an important package. The Gestapo shows up in the town and Lesa together with a Jewish clerk, Ticháček, have to run for their lives. They ride a cargo train to Slovakia and they decide to escape to Hungary by crossing the Danube.

This DVD brings a selection of ten issues of the newsreel A Week in Film from the period od 1970-1979. Each newsreel contains several brief news reports from various areas of the life of contemporary society, such as politics, economy, science, cultural events, and sports. By the choice of themes and the method of their cenveying this mosaic of film reports offers a picture of at times somewhat bizarre atmosphere of our communist past.