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- Two days before Christmas. Zuzanka and Tomás, friends from a kindergarten wander off during a walk. They admire toys and decoration in shop-windows. Zuzanka shall receive a sledge as a Christmas present and Tomás even a desired little brother. At a shooting gallery Tomás aims at a target on the trunk of a blue elephant which can call in Christmas. The impatient Zuzanka pushes to her friend and he shoots directly to the elephant's red eye. Things which the owner of the shooting gallery warned about happened: the sun popped on the sky, the snow melted and all Christmas shopping has stopped. Both pushful children decide to get a new eye for the elephant so that everything can be set right.
- As a car full of an assortment of characters rolls down an embankment and bursts into flames, the old driver says "See You in Hell, Friends." The relations between the characters are shown in flashbacks. The pretty Rita and her fiancee Petras meet the old colonel, and come to live in his farmhouse. Rita marries the colonel as well as her fiancee, and has a daughter Christine. The colonel's supposed father shows up, and also makes amorous advances on Rita. They all live blissfully together until two holy women with axes arrive. The women start chopping down trees to build an ark. Rita starts having nightmares and Christine is crucified.
- Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.
- In this experimental film the same dialogue is treated by three directors in three different settings. In one 20 year old's speak the words, in the other two 40 and 60 year old's. The dialogue itself involves a man coming home to humiliation, the reconciliation followed again by separation. It is the obscure nature of the dialogue that allows the different treatments.
- A love story between a young girl and a hunter in the Tatra Mountain of Czechoslovakia.
- Two ex-soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after World War One.
- In an old abandoned church, a group of retired people meet, but because of the overload of the younger forces, the re-activated devils are in the process against their colleague, who cried over the fate of man. The dilapidated manor house in Dolní Krupa, remembering the times of Beethoven and his Moonlight Sonatas, now serves as a madhouse and an alcoholic sanatorium; they bring a woman who went crazy when she found out that the defendant had caused her husband to be unfaithful to another, while she, loving Beethoven's sonata, could not be seduced. The bitter irony is the presence of two geniuses: one wanted to make a man noble and human with music - and he lost, the other wanted the opposite - and he also lost. The evil became so great that he would cry over himself and see no other way out for himself than going to the opposite camp.
- The story, which takes place on the construction site of a large factory, depicts the tragedy of Martin Gonda, a construction worker whose wife and child die in childbirth.
- This musical movie is a story of the group Rabaka (Elán) that after their breakup decide they will return to the concert stage. With young lyricist and screenwriter Peter they're trying get not only technical equipment, but particularly to compile a new concert program called Return of the Little Prince.
- A satirical comedy about three friends, caretakers of a mountain hut, who try to save the Lost Valley from a devastating tourist invasion.
- A group of Martin furnaces' operators do their best to save the life of their seriously injured friend. In these crucial moments the real character qualities of his co-workers are exposed as well as the emotional and family problems of his own.
- 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 Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He loses his beloved, 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 cattle from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.
- A tragic love story of two young people during the Jewish pogrom set in a small Slovak town. Following the fate of Eva and Igor, two Jewish draymen - Samko and Maxi and an ambitious careerist Flórik, the film documents the period marked by Nazi expansion.
- Once a man of great influence and means, Ivanov has fallen into debt and out of love with his wife. Spending his evenings away from home, among the idle and morally corrupt, Ivanov finds himself drawn to Sasha, the daughter of a wealthy friend, who appears determined to save him.
- Five high-school senior girls, who because of a prank, are falsely accused of signing a pact with the devil to lose their virginity before they graduate.
- A sequel to the Copper Tower, Eagle Feather continued the success of its predecessor in many ways. Two inseparable friends, Oldie and Valer, return from prison to the Stratena Valley to start a new life - that of respectable citizens.
- 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.
- The action of the film takes place in the course of one night at a fashionable nightclub in Bratislava. The leading characters are two young girls who are spending their holiday in Bratislava and two boys who live there.
- Psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity and emotional barrenness of the men around her.
- The Feather Fairy lives in the sky and gives snow to the people. She lives with a boy called Jakob, who one day ventures into the human world and falls for a peasant girl.
- This is a tragicomic story about boys who even in times of war remember how to play soldiers, dream of heroic deeds, spy on girls, show off in front of friends, and make up fantastic adventures.
- A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test.
- Being afraid of having disclosed by Birc who works for Germany, slacker,Matous into the Guerrilla. And then pursuing a formal tank troop, in order to protect relatives she lead enemies into minefield.
- Fascist Slovak State, Christmas Day 1944: regardless of this important Christian holiday, cruel Nazi repression is taking place in Slovakia. Men, women and children are executed by the hundreds by the Germans for taking part in the Slovak National Uprising and for merely helping the partisans. The Kubis family tries to survive the war as best they can, even if it means collaboration. Son Marian is a commander of the fascist guards, his cynical brother-in-law Palo runs a business and tries to keep a low profile as much as possible. Palo's wife Angela has begun an affair with Nazi Major Brecker, who is staying with the Kubis. However, a serious threat to everyone, including the grandparents, comes from their nineteen-year-old son Juraj, who fought with the partisans and managed to escape execution. The young man arrives home with an injured leg. While the Germans carry out house-to-house searches for the fugitive, Juraj waits in the attic for medical help and begins to delirious with fever. An "idyllic" Christmas Eve dinner takes place downstairs, to which Major Brecker himself has invited himself.