Peter Solan

Majka "Chatterbox" is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. While her mother keeps scolding her for the way she walks, her classmates mock her and call her a "duck". Along an innocent first love affair and a secret friendship, she receives little understanding from her parents and lots of malice from her schoolmates. Majka finds refuge with her grandmother and in her own fantasy world. Director Peter Solan made a sensitive portrait of a twelve year-old schoolgirl. The eloquent film language talks to child and adult audiences alike.

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."

A woman prisoner is harshly incarcerated and suddenly released.

Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution — these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of ”average" people of those times.

In this bitingly satirical film Peter Slovan, a continuous source of trouble for the film functionaries of the socialist Slovakia, tackles an evergreen topic – the corruptive effects of power. Barnabáš Kos, a triangle player at a symphonic orchestra, is suddenly promoted to serve as the head of the said institution, even though both he and his superiors deem him completely unfit for the task. Encouraged in equal parts by this unexpected recognition and the servile praise of his colleagues, Kos’s modesty starts to gradually vanish. The erstwhile bashful and aloof percussionist quickly becomes aware of the advantages of his new office, and begins to realise his increasingly ludicrous artistic ambitions. Ultimately, the submissive marionette turns into a source of public humiliation, and his astonishing career finds an abrupt end. Orchestra serves here as a microcosm that grotesquely reflects the absurd and tragicomic mechanisms of the paranoid apparatus of power.

A movie built up of three stories about life in a small Slovak town. The Prosecutor: the district attorney is a jazz orchestra soloist at the same time and that is much disliked by the local provincial society. The Defender: is about a young doctor's relation to his patient, who is open about his reactionary opinions. The Judge: it is only after long years that the old judge realizes that his own marriage is in jeopardy.

Начальник лагеря смерти Вальтер Крафт, в прошлом боксер, желая развлечься, решает устроить боксерский матч. Своим противником он выбирает истощенного, полуживого заключенного Яна Каминека, в прошлом тоже боксера. На тренировках гитлеровец жестоко избивает своего противника. Но постепенно Ян, получающий по указанию Крафта усиленный паек, набирает силы и на матче побеждает Крафта. Озлобленный Крафт собирается убить Яна, но по совету своей возлюбленной Хельги решает расправиться с ним иначе: он организует побег Яна, вероломно обещая ему, что никто из заключенных не пострадает за это. Будучи уже за пределами лагеря, Ян слышит лагерную сирену. Он понимает, что Крафт обманул его. Чтобы предотвратить расправу над заключенными, которых приговорят к смерти за его мнимый побег...

Начальник лагеря смерти Вальтер Крафт, в прошлом боксер, желая развлечься, решает устроить боксерский матч. Своим противником он выбирает истощенного, полуживого заключенного Яна Каминека, в прошлом тоже боксера. На тренировках гитлеровец жестоко избивает своего противника. Но постепенно Ян, получающий по указанию Крафта усиленный паек, набирает силы и на матче побеждает Крафта. Озлобленный Крафт собирается убить Яна, но по совету своей возлюбленной Хельги решает расправиться с ним иначе: он организует побег Яна, вероломно обещая ему, что никто из заключенных не пострадает за это. Будучи уже за пределами лагеря, Ян слышит лагерную сирену. Он понимает, что Крафт обманул его. Чтобы предотвратить расправу над заключенными, которых приговорят к смерти за его мнимый побег...

Episodic film consisting of three satirical shorts ('Smutný káder', 'Typický prípad' and 'Vel'korysá kampaň') comically exposing the shortcomings of society. In the interval between each short, a committee recognising themselves in the characters on screen, voice their approval or disapproval of each film.