Отправил отец своего сына мир посмотреть, а заодно научиться бояться, так как уж больно неоправданный риск любил юный герой. Много приключений выпало на его пути. Были и дружба, и предательство, и любовь. И научился он бояться. Не трусить, а бояться за тех, кто дорог и близок.
Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.
After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody believed that Juraj died in America because Polana stopped receiving money from him already two years ago. Polana's farm was prospering first of all thanks to the young stable boy Stepán (Sándor Oszter). Men in the pub first indicate and then say to Juraj directly that Polana has been unfaithful to him with Stepán.
Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village.
A balladic story situated in a Slovak mountain region before the 2nd World War. A young man returns to his native village after many years. There he meets Zuna, a mysterious girl of the forest, who opens his eyes to the charming nature to perceive hidden corners of the world and of his own soul.
A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The Gavora family of four leave their secure village home blinded by the vision of a big career and easy earning of money in the capital city.
The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werbőczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchange.
Chudo
This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Leaps, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He lost his wife, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of sheep from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.
A classical ballad motif about an aging father and his three daughters is quite unusually here set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia of the 1950s. After having been expropriated, the former landowner Majda seeks refuge with his three daughters whom he had sent to a convent a long time ago. But only the youngest one is able to forgive him and she is willing to take care of him despite the threat of expulsion from the order.
A film about the dramatic lives ofthe people of the village of Ráztoka during WW I. Women are left without husbands, families fall apart, finding themselves on the verge of poverty. Eva, the main heroine, is going through difficulties after her husband was drafted to the army. Her defilement and her tragic death cause a rebellion by which the village inhabitants finally stand up against their unbearable situation.
О национальном герое словацкого народа Юро Яношике, поднявшем в XVIII веке знамя борьбы за счастье и свободу простых людей.
servant Jáno
Отца маленького Ергуша убили жандармы. Чтобы помочь матери, мальчик нанимается батраком, потом уходит на фабрику, в город, но, не выдержав жестокой эксплуатации, надеясь стать свободным и независимым, возвращается в горы, где когда-то сражался его отец за благо народа.
Krejci
Действие происходит во время национального восстания 1944 года. В словацком селе погибли два немецких солдата. Командир немецкой части (Ладислав Худик) объявил, что за каждого убитого солдата будут расстреляны пять заложников. И не меняет своего решения, когда становится известно, что солдаты погибли из-за несчастного случая. Но крестьяне не ждут покорно своей судьбы - они берутся за оружие...
