A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal complexities that both strain and sustain their bond.
In 1980s CSSR, depressed Martin tries to overcome the feeling of being locked up with jazz music.
An army deserter and a soon-to-be high school graduate embark on an ill-fated romance in this musical film set in the '60s.
Bratislavafilm is a feature documentary about the time that captures life at present. One day in terms of mobsters (Banana (mafstory), Peter Batthyánya), also from the perspective of a taxi driver (Joseph Kapec), which is experiencing a marital crisis and life of a young drug dealer (Michael Nemtuda), who lives on the "other side" of the city in PETRŽALKA this entire story path connects the man who comes to Bratislava for work and his ideas consist of the ideal city. The stories intersect and result in a drama. (The official distributor of text)
A Christmas comedy-fairy tale in which Prince Leopold and Princess Josephine defy fate by vowing never to marry. When a time-travel adventure to the future goes awry, they must fight for their lives and their kingdom, only to discover, as in all fairy tales, that destiny has other plans.
A car thief driven by a love of cash finds his priorities shift when he falls for a college student but his conversion has dangerous consequences.
Four friends, Karel, Milan, Tomáš, and Vinco, lose their jobs in Ostrava’s working-class districts and, with their livelihoods gone, struggle to redefine themselves. They launch various business ventures but lack experience, leading to repeated failures. Pressure mounts on their friendships and private lives as tensions flare. Through setbacks and mutual support, they embark on a journey of self-discovery, learning resilience, solidarity, and the true meaning of identity and camaraderie in a changing world.
Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Eisner and an experienced FBI officer Food, who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.
The forester's lodge in a remote area they live in sin has four generations of family Hanák. Grandmother overflowing zest for life and her passion for writing detective stories. Her daughter, Ms. Hanáková, spirited woman with a big heart, loves to sing, but because he has no talent, all his life was the cook. Mr. Hanak's dispatcher, his lifelong loves animals of all kinds and sizes, which grows in the house and its surroundings. Paul has an older daughter with husband Peter, occasional handyman who usually sleeps or her hyperactive two sons, whom no one tells you differently than blackguard. Informal family member then Mr. Kestrel, who in the house for the town to spend a lot of time suspicious! One completely normal family afternoon notify the younger daughter Kate family that is expecting a baby.
Martin has everything: his own contemporary art gallery, an intelligent and beautiful wife, a nice apartment, an organized and peaceful life. And maybe that's the problem. His everyday life is dominated by overwhelming boredom, a routine that kills all joy.
Linda and Vanda, two good-looking women in their thirties, are inseparable friends and co-owners of a small bookstore in the city center. Linda is divorced, educated and practical, has a little daughter and a sense of responsibility. Vanda, on the contrary, is single and free, attracting men as a magnet, but none of them is able to keep up with her spontaneity. Edo, shy, sensitive, and introverted gay working with them in the bookstore, longs for love for ages too. The lives of this trio get finally tangled by several men, while everything turns up differently than any of them had expected.
This time our holiday heroes will go skiing together in the mountains. They have everything planned and can't wait to ski with the kids and relax in the hotel spa. But it wouldn't be a holiday if everything went like clockwork. Especially with Jano Jančich taking care of the accommodation and the programme. So instead of a relaxing holiday in a Tatra hotel, our families will experience unexpected adventures in a cottage and in seclusion. Before that, however, we will see how they experience Christmas Eve. Even that will not be without surprises...
The stories of three women who know each other, or get to know each other. They are brought together by friendship, a man and a little five-year-old girl. Simona rebuilds her life after she divorces and her son decides to live with his father. Natalie finds love in the form of a widower with a young daughter and a devoted grandmother. And even at retirement age, Eva discovers that her life still includes the love of a partner, not just that of her granddaughter.
Tomas, a 14-year-old boy lives beneath the castle of the powerful Lord Balador. The boy is able to communicate with animals, and he tries to obtain the royal falcon – a symbol of freedom and faith. He also falls in love with Balador's daughter Formina, a girl who is to be married off against her will.
Four old friends decide to shake up their unhappy, monotonous lives with a friendly bet and set off a series of unexpected events.
The story of a barely grown man who lives as a fresh postulant before vows in a community of monks. He not only shares with his brothers their world of contemplation, but also, as a link in a long chain, he takes those persecuted by the communist regime across the border to Germany. On one night's return, he witnesses a ruthless crackdown on a group of students fleeing from a nearby village where they had been on compulsory work experience. And not only that: that night, a community of monks is also liquidated in Action K (April 1950), and the returning Christopher witnesses their transport without being able to help his comrades.
Marta and Jozef have four children. Jozef commutes to Prague for work. Marta works in a bakery, devotes all her energy to children. The eldest daughter Lenka is currently experiencing her first real love for the student Karol and wants to go to America with him. Her brother Milan spends a difficult period of puberty with a group of boys who amuse themselves by spying on couples making love. The nine-year-old accordionist Katka is jealous of her five-year-old sister Milka, because she thinks that her mother pays more attention to her. The story begins at the moment when Marta announces to Jozef that they are expecting their fifth child. The events that follow are a difficult but at the same time necessary test for all family members...
Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small towns and villages.