Movies: Slovensky Filmovy Ustav

A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized 8 transports to take children from Prague to new homes in Gr...

A film about the phenomenon of Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak politician, one of the most prominent personalities of the Prague Spring of 1968, author of the concept of “socialism with a human face”....

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The film is a Slovak version of The Thin Blue Line, recounting the unsolved disappearance and murder of a young woman that happened thirty years ago. It was a case that was paraded in the communist media at the end of which seven individuals were fou...

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Slovak musicologist Agata Schindlerová, now settled in Dresden, has spent years mapping out the forgotten destinies of Jewish musicians whose lives were irrevocably marked by the advance of nazism. Scenes from the lives of several of them are portray...

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Real love saved her life. Famous photographer of film stars ZUZANA MINACOVA presents a fascinating account of the Nazi and Communist era in Central Europe....

In her documentary on Hungarian-Slovak relations, Vladislava Plancíková focuses on the word "felvidék", which refers to the now non-existent northern part of Austro-Hungary. In a personal collage consisting of the stories of members of her Slovak-Hun...

Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels elsewhere?...

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The film maps the life and work of the historian Ján Mlynárik (1933 - 2012), which took place very close to the controversial events in the historical development of the former Czechoslovakia....

As the wind blows away the magician's magic top hat, a multitude of hats in various colors, shapes, and materials scatter across the landscape. With the unexpected loss of his hat, the magician finds himself unemployed and eventually joins the circus...

Two gold diggers and a robber meet in a parodic vision of the Wild West....

A documentary about the work of lumberjacks in hard-to-access locations....

Poetic reportage from the Grand Prix of Slovakia in yachting on the lakes in Senec....