Viera Topinková

Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.

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.

Главному герою Томасу около сорока, и он хочет изменить свою жизнь. В этом ему активно «помогает» молодая англичанка, зовущая его жить за границу. Но оказывается, не так-то просто это сделать, если у тебя уже почти взрослый сын, немолодые родители, да еще бывшая, взбалмошная и все-таки дорогая жена…

Set in Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1938, about two children who play together and who are great friends. However their days of friendship are numbered...

This film is a psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity and emotional barrenness of the men around her.

A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. The five girls first try to defend themselves, but when they find out that nobody believes them - neither the school principal nor even their own parents - they decide to accomplish what they have been falsely accused of. And although their clumsy attempts are mostly comic, at one point they almost cause a big tragedy.

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.

Действие происходит в словацких горах в конце Второй Мировой войны. Фильм состоит из шести коротких рассказов, которые, однако, образуют единое повествование. Действие первого рассказа происходит летом 1944 года, последнего - весной 1945. Главные герои фильма - трое деревенских мальчишек разного возраста: Рудка, Винс и Мартин. Их глазами мы воспринимаем все события, произошедшие в фильме.