Štefan Uher

The final film by Slovak director Stefan Uher.

The final film by Slovak director Stefan Uher.

Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. 18 years later her (now 18-year-old) daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.

Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. 18 years later her (now 18-year-old) daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.

The drama of the last days of the second world war through the eyes of children in rural areas.

Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village.

A girl is transformed into a maple tree by her impulsive and angry mother. Three poor wandering musicians come by the tree and create instruments from it. Walking around the country instead of happiness they bring death everywhere with their cursed instruments. However they cannot get rid of them, unless they bury the wooden instruments at the place of the tree. The three are anything but harmonious, each taking in their disputes various stances.

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.

A Slovak comedy from director Štefan Uher and screenwriter Alfonz Bednár.

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.

Анабелла — молодая и красивая девушка знакомится с группой художников. Она пробуждает их эротические желания — и чистое чувство любви, она становится объектом их тайных фантазий и источником творческого вдохновения...

The Organ is a drama set in the times of the wartime Slovak State. A young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He gets into a conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values. The collision of talent and beauty with pettiness and closed-mindedness leads to envy and ill will, which draw young Felix away from his temporary hiding place and back to the dangers of war.

Это лирический рассказ о юноше и девушке, которые встречаются на крыше панельного дома на фоне бесцветного меланхолического пейзажа телевизионных антенн. Они одинаково смотрят на жизнь, родителей, с которыми невозможно говорить, встречаются с одинаковыми трудностями. Общность взглядов и положений роднит их, они начинают испытывать друг к другу симпатию. На время они расстаются, но потом встречаются вновь, предчувствуя на пороге зрелости, что то, что их связывает, нелегко порвать. В фильме, как и в отношениях его героев, нет ничего определенного, есть только реальность, в которой почти все метафора. Ибо уловить истинное чувство почти так же трудно, как поймать солнце в сеть.

Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.

Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.