Elo Romančík

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Advokátka
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Advokátka

Mar 17, 1978
The story of a young lawyer who finds herself in a difficult situation when she encounters troubles in her burgeoning career and complications in private her life.
Drama
Le marteau des sorcières
7.6
Une vieille femme est surprise à voler une hostie consacrée pendant la messe pour guérir une vache qui ne donne plus de lait. Le curé y voit signe de sorcellerie et demande à la seigneurie locale d'ordonner un tribunal d'inquisition pour juger les coupables au grand dam du clergé de la ville persuadé qu'il n'y a là qu'ignorance et superstition. Mais l'inquisiteur, homme insidieux, envieux et cruel, y voit un moyen aisé de s'accaparer les richesses et d'éliminer ses ennemis, et bien vite la machine s'emballe sous la torture et les bûchers s'enflamment.
Drama
Pštrosí večierok
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Pštrosí večierok

Jan 01, 1969
Television adaptation of Ivan Bukovčan's tragicomedy. The story of people who meet at a post-graduation party and discuss their lives. The meeting of graduates after 25 years is a space for mental cleansing of opinions and attitudes of the past years. Higher moral values convict the participants of distorting their characters and their own opinions.
Drama
Postav dom, zasaď strom
5.1
Juraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.
Drama
Koniec a začiatok
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Koniec a začiatok

Jan 01, 1968
Television adaptation of Roman Kaliský's play. Reconstruction of a trial with a journalist from the 1950s.
Drama
Polnočná omša
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Polnočná omša

Aug 24, 1962
On Christmas Eve, 1944, in Nazi-occupied Slovakia, the Kubiš family grapples with survival amidst brutal reprisals. Marián collaborates as a fascist guard leader, while his sister Angela has an affair with their Nazi lodger, Major Brecker. The situation escalates when their younger son, Juraj, a former partisan fighter, returns home wounded. As Germans search homes for escapees, Juraj hides in the attic, while an unsettling Christmas dinner unfolds below with Major Brecker present.
Drama
Šerif za mrežami
4.3

Šerif za mrežami

Mar 04, 1966
A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate his gesture and leaves the stolen goods in a safe hideaway to later divide them fairly among the gang members. This conviction gives Jakub the strength to endure the unbearable conditions in the center. But reality is often much harsher than naive ideals and hollow relations in the gang.
Drama
Rodná zem
7.5

Rodná zem

Feb 24, 1954
The first Slovakian colour film. A celebration of traditional Slovakian folklore and creativity expressed through a story of young love .
Music
Русский роман
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On one May day in 1864, N. G. Chernyshevsky, a writer and revolutionary democrat, was declared a state criminal and sentenced to hard labor in Siberian mines. A group of young people, raznochintsy, is seeking to include them in the expedition of the Russian Geographical Society with the secret goal of organizing Chernyshevsky’s escape...
Romance
Kamarátka Šuška
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Kamarátka Šuška

Sep 02, 1977
A story about three young boys who are best friends and together are trying to fight a poacher in the forest close to their village.
Adventure
Kubo
8.5

Kubo

Jan 01, 1965
TV Movie
Pomocník
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Pomocník

Jul 02, 1982
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.
Drama
Amok
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Amok

Mar 28, 1977
Drama
30 případů majora Zemana
7.1
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.
Drama
Lekár umierajúceho času
8
Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak Television Bratislava, directed by Slovak director Miroslav Luther in the first half of 80's in Barrandov Studios in Prague. The story and screenplay of the series wrote Czech writer Vladimír Körner. Five-episodes epic historical narration is a biographical story of distinguished Renaissance scholar, anatomist and politic of Slovak origin, Johannes Jessenius (Ján Jesenský, 1566–1621). It displays his life from the first studies and successes. In 1594 he became professor of surgery and anatomy on Wittenberg University, which he had attended years before. From that moment, his life went through social and personal wins and losses, to the sad end on the Prague Old Town Square gallows, among 27 noblemen, knights and burgenses, after lose Bohemian Revolt in 1621. His destiny was coupled with key events of Czech history in the break of 16th and 17th century, when Renaissance and European humanism slowly fade out.
Drama