Gustáv Valach

Slingboy

A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.

Adrift

A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually,...

Dragon's Return

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the s...

První parta

The unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to abandon his stu...

Lucrezia Borgia

A television production of the novel by French writer Victor Hugo. The story of the Pope's daughter Lucrezia Bo...

Shadows of a Hot Summer

Ondrej lives on a farm outside a small town with his family. One day a group of men arrive at the family's hous...

Pavlínka

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a local midwif...

White Darkness

A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.

Homeland

The first Slovakian colour film. A celebration of traditional Slovakian folklore and creativity expressed throu...

Maple and Juliana

A girl is transformed into a maple tree by her impulsive and angry mother. Three poor wandering musicians come...

Penelopa

An emancipated restorer restores rare castle frescoes in an ancient village with figures of ancient heroines -...

Dolina

A dramatic story of the emotional, moral and political maturation of two young people during the Slovak Nationa...

Dynamit

The drama of a man driven to crime by the mechanism of violence in an American prison. It is an indictment of A...

Pávie pierko

Version of the fairy tale "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"; unlike this one, the young charcoal-burner's...

Horúčka

A psychological story of a young printing house leader and his subordinates and a "dangerous contract from the...

Long Live the Republic

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on...

Behind the Sloe-Bush

Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and understands th...

Netrpezlivosť srdca

A TV adaptation of a novel by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The tragic love story of a lame girl and a lieutena...

Senzi mama

The Nun's Night

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation...

Unploughed Field

The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Peter Jilemnický is a drama about the life of poor Kysuce...

Piková dáma

Priehrada

The construction of a large dam in Slovakia is hindered by the influence of small farmers on the landowner Bujn...

On the Poachers Trail

Second part of the trilogy. Vasek is expected to go to Bulgaria for a holiday with his parents during the summe...

Vassa Železnovová

Mariša

Trio Angelos

The Struggle Will End Tomorrow

The story of the great strike of the workers building the Cervena Skala - Mergecany railway line

Kačička Modropierko

A poetically themed animated story by Ruda Mórica, with commentary by Gustáv Valach, about a duck named Modropi...

Pštrosí večierok

Television adaptation of Ivan Bukovčan's tragicomedy. The story of people who meet at a post-graduation party a...

Kto odchádza v daždi...

A drama from the period of village collectivisation in 1947-1948, it depicts the life of former beggars who, af...

Under the Badgers Rock

The gamekeeper Straka lives by himself in the Bohemian forest hill. He has quarreled with his only son. He cann...

Čierne ovce

Mozoľovci

Žena z Vrchov

A dramatic story of a young woman, Mária Kedrová, who gradually breaks free from her humiliating position in he...

Rodina Tjaeldovcov