Adam Matejka
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The Devil Does Not Sleep (1957)
Episodic film consisting of three satirical shorts ('Smutný káder', 'Typický prípad' and 'Vel'korysá kampaň')...

The Last Witch (1957)
This dramatic story is situated in the town of Trnava of the 18th century. Painter Peter paints an altar-piece of the Martyrdom of St. Juliet and his...

St. Peter's Umbrella (1958)
A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.

Earthly Honor (1958)
Historical satire from the first half of the 19th century, which captures the decay and decline of the landed estate. The impoverished peasants still...

The Shop on Main Street (1965)
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned...

Uzlíky nádeje (1979)
Social ballad. Three short stories – "Uzlík tepla", "Chlapec a pánboh" and "Rubári" – depict three different human...

The Song of the Grey Pigeon (1961)
An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war...

Night Riders (1981)
Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax...

Jánošík (1963)
This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro...

Hordubal (1980)
After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse...

Stud (1968)
The drama offers Arnošt Pánek, chairman of the National Committee, as the protagonist of the story. Pánek is disturbed by news...

An Honest Thief (1958)
Set in Bratislava in the 1930s, about a clerk at a humanitarian foundation who is unjustly accused of embezzling a large sum of money.

A Pact with the Devil (1967)
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...

Štyridsaťštyri (1958)
Drama about the rebellion of the Trencín Infantry Regiment against its superior officers in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, at the end of the...

Naši pred bránami (1970)
A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The Gavora family of four leave their secure village...

Nudity (1990)
Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the...

Christmas Wafer (1977)
Lovely overview of traditional Slovak Christmas.

The Bride of the Mountains (1972)
A balladic story situated in a Slovak mountain region before the 2nd World War. A young man returns to his native village after many years. There he...

Maple and Juliana (1973)
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...

Field Lilies (1973)
Two repatriated soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after the First World War.

The Southern Mail (1988)
Based on the eponymous novel by Ladislav Ballek.

Pacho, the Brigand of Hybe (1976)
A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with...

I Wouldn't Leave Tereza for Any Other Girl (1976)
An animal lover father brings home a cuddlesome female chimp named Tereza from his latest around the world and adopts her as a pet...

Toni, You're Crazy (1969)
In the village cemetery, the funeral of a married couple - victims of a car crash - is ending. The relatives unscrupulously take away the facilities...

Živý bič (1967)
A film about the dramatic lives ofthe people of the village of Ráztoka during WW I. Women are left without husbands, families fall apart,...

The Nun's Night (1967)
A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the...

Great Solitude (1960)
In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague to lift the declining JZD he helped establish.

The Royal Chase (1969)
Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice.

Eagle Feather (1972)
The film captures the new events in the lives of the main characters of the film "The Copper Tower". After two years spent in prison because of...

The Coward (1962)
In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front...

Summer with Kate (1975)
A funny story about a little girl Kate and her summer adventures.

Infidelity, Slovak Style (1981)
A comedy about three flirtatious woodcutters realistically capturing Slovak village life and criticizing insincerity, hypocrisy and male pride.

Infidelity, Slovak Style (1981)
A comedy about three flirtatious woodcutters realistically capturing Slovak village life and criticizing insincerity, hypocrisy and male pride.