Ady Hajdu

The End of the World (2024)

An original story told by Uncle Igor, a son of Russian aristocrats, and his nine year old grandson Tonda. A powerful story of complicated times around 1968, a story full of contrasts: Whether it is the relation between what Grandpa's plentiful life entails ...

The Dormant Account (2024)

The young couple's search for the secret of their ancestors. Its roots are in the time when the worst crimes of the last century took place, connected with corruption, boundless greed, ruthlessness, with borderline manifestations of inhumanity, but also wi ...

Once Upon a Time In East (2024)

A solitary police operative skilfully moves on the edge of the law in the wild atmosphere of the East Slovak underworld in the early 1990s. ...

Réveillon (2023)

What was supposed to be a joyful celebration over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia turns chaotic when the Varchal family discovers that their father betrayed both country and family by working for the secret police. The family members turn against each ot ...

Smolu nosíš ty, láska (2023)

Monika, a woman in her fifties, feels that she has reached all the important milestones in her life. Her child is grown up and she is very successful in her career as a workaholic. However, she has less and less in common with her husband, and her thoughts ...

Jozef Mak (2022)

Jozef Mak is illegitimate child of poor widow. He constantly withstands oppression of brother, village people and various wounds of fate. Despite of difficulties of the life, he moves on as resilient as the social class he represents. ...

Jak si nevzít princeznu (2021)

A Christmas comedy-fairy tale in which Prince Leopold and Princess Josephine defy fate by vowing never to marry. When a time-travel adventure to the future goes awry, they must fight for their lives and their kingdom, only to discover, as in all fairy tale ...

Divadlo a škola fenomén Ludus (2021)

The Banger (2020)

The fictional town of Šlukdorf. Here lives a car mechanic who calls himself Bourák. He loves rock and roll, dance, his own gelled hair and, despite being in his fifties, simply "refuses to grow up". He forgets he has a wife. The only things he loves are ...

The Magic Stone (2019)

In one fairytale land, people lived contentedly for many years, they had their usual joys and worries, they enjoyed the surrounding nature, the majestic forest. In addition to wild animals, birds and butterflies, fairies, goblins, dwarves and other magical ...

Amnesty (2019)

Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23000 prisoners. In addition to the story of three families affected by communist persecution, the film Amnesty also deals with the uprising ...

Toman (2018)

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews. ...

Intimate Enemy (2018)

Andrej, a programmer, is developing his smart house project. To perfect his program, he moved with his wife Zuzana to a test house. He strives to introduce a bonus into the program - care for his wife. Suddenly someone else, someone mysterious takes contro ...

Pani Dokonalá (2018)

At 43, Inge Jung thinks she has it all. A great career in a multinational company, friends, unerring judgement and self-confidence. Until betrayal strikes and Inge loses everything she's loved about her life in one moment. She loses her job, her car and he ...

Singing Land and the Queen Harmony (2017)

The fairy-tale land of Spievankovo ​​is ruled by the kind-hearted Queen Harmony. Her mission is to ensure that music, singing, and good cheer never disappear from the land. However, music has somehow become alien to the inhabitants of Spievankovo, the ...

A Prominent Patient (2017)

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British ...

The Kidnapping (2017)

The last day of the first year of the young Slovak Republic is coming to an end. Everyone is celebrating. The king of the underworld, Efendi, and the President. Only the President has nothing to celebrate. The President, who himself has trodden the path to ...

Hostage (2014)

Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czecho ...

A Step Into the Dark (2014)

A young doctor, former partisan leader - is he a hero, or a murderer? His wife - a victim, or a minion of a totalitarian regime? And his lover - a political careerist, or a naive single mother betrayed by fate? The dramatic fates of these antiheroes from t ...

The Confidant (2012)

New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy couple, as well as a prosperous future. However, he soon finds out ...

Broken Promise (2009)

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 ...

Tango s komármi (2009)

Two emigrants return home to Slovakia for a few days after many years. Karol needs to get divorced because he wants to remarry happily and advantageously. Rudo is supposed to discreetly watch over him so that he does not fail. He was hired by Karol's fianc ...

Music (2008)

In 1980s CSSR, depressed Martin tries to overcome the feeling of being locked up with jazz music. ...

Half Breakdown (2007)

A contemporary tragicomedy from a modern city about disintegration of relationship, disintegration of a marriage, and maybe also about the disappearance of basic rules from decent life. A very black comedy about people in their 40ies who already have money ...

Two Syllables Behind (2005)

Zuzana is an attractive and likable art student who works alongside her studies because she would like to start a life of her own. Like many young people, she is trying to find what would fulfill her, what she would like to do, find out who she would like ...

The Unburied Man (2004)

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre N ...

Nevěrné hry (2003)

The film tells the story of Eva, a pianist who followed her husband, musician and composer Peter, to a small village on the Slovak-Hungarian border. While Peter enjoys the peace and quiet of composing in the local environment, Eva searches in vain for a ca ...

Cruel Joys (2002)

This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with passion, and repressed and hidden emotion. It delves into the search for ...

Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte (2001)

The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany. ...

Slečna Dušehojivá (2000)

Television adaptation of the classic novel by American author N. West. ...

O ľuďoch a čarodejníkoch (1999)

A fairytale story in which love and humanity are not just words, but become a force that words cannot describe. You won't find three identical stars in the sky, three identical stones on the earth, nor three identical beings among the wizards - the old and ...

Rivers of Babylon (1998)

Dark satire about bare-knuckled capitalism in the immediate post-Cold War era. Set just as the Communist government is collapsing, the film focuses on the brutish Racz, the handyman in a Bratislava hotel. Knowing that his job is insured for life, Racz turn ...

Prášky na spanie (1996)

A sensitive insight into the relationship of two young people whose marriage is going through a hidden, yet dramatic crisis. Different measures of values, minor-major misunderstandings, the disappointment of a childless marriage, feelings of loneliness and ...

Na krásnom modrom Dunaji (1994)

A crazy comedy about three bohemian friends whose fascination with adventures verging on breaking the law, sexual freedom, loose entertainment and no fears of the consequences bring them even to partaking in the theft of an Andy Warhol painting. ...

Lusty Liaisons (1994)

Series of erotic stories, inspired by La Fontaine's and Boccaccio's work. ...

Lusty Liaisons II (1994)

Series of erotic stories, inspired by La Fontaine's and Boccaccio's work. ...

O Jankovi kľúčiarovi (1994)

A philosophical fairy tale based on the themes of Pavel Dobšinský about faith in man, the good in him, which only love can help to win. Princess Jasna also had such faith in goodness and love, which is why she endured with great difficulty the choice of ...

Slepý Geronimo a jeho brat (1993)

The story of a brother's hard-tested love, based on Arthur Schnitzler's novel. ...

Zlý žart (1993)

The tragicomedy of a man who, by inappropriately attending the wedding of his subordinate, wants to demonstrate humanistic thinking in a society that is not ripe for such ideas. However, it turns out that even for him humanism is just a declared empty conc ...

Pavilón číslo 6 (1992)

Lorenzaccio (1991)

Piata pečať (1990)

Jacobowski a plukovník (1990)

A Path Across the Danube (1989)

In WWII, Czechoslovakia split into the Slovak State and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Former pilot Viktor Lesa works for the Slovak Railway Mail and often comes to the border town of Ludendorf, the former Czech town of Bfeclav. In order to impr ...

Prstienky z kukučiny (1989)

Mahuliena, Golden Maiden (1987)

The adventure fairy-tale about the brave prince and his faithful butler Jan wandering together. ...

Kára plná bolesti (1986)

War takes its cruel toll, which everyone must pay. It hits a small Slovak village especially hard, where the struggle for a bare life becomes a test of human character. For two impoverished friends, Jakub and Maja, struggling through poverty is more than d ...

Chlapec do náručia (1986)

Štvrtá hlava draka (1985)

Návrat (1985)