František Karas

Život na úteku (1976)

In Slovakia, they often and gladly honored those soldiers who refused to serve the fascist regime and stood against it. Lieutenant Kukorelli also rejected the tempting career of a pilot, instead helping the resistance fighters and later participating in th ...

Slůně (1972)

Zločin slečny Bacilpýšky (1971)

Don't forget your child in kindergarten, because even good and helpful toys can't always protect them from evil traps. ...

The Seventh Continent (1966)

A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents. ...

Výhybka (1963)

A story of two old friends, who after ten years - one as the deputy director and the other as the chairman of the party organization - meet on a large construction site. ...

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 through the eyes of three youngsters. The three have a series of adventures which include saving a soldier from ...

Jerguš Lapin (1960)

Little Jerguš's father was killed by gendarmes. To help his mother, the boy is hired as a laborer, then goes to the factory, to the city, but, unable to withstand the cruel exploitation, hoping to become free and independent, returns to the mountains, whe ...

Kapitán Dabač (1959)

The drama of a young Slovak army officer who gradually realises the horrors of fascism during the fighting in Ukraine. On his return to Slovakia, he joins the SNP. However, he cannot overcome his loner attitude or his doubts about the meaning of partisan a ...

Muž ktorý sa nevrátil (1959)

Police Lieutenant Vlado Hronec, together with the curious journalist Zvar, first search for the thief of important production documents, which they might be interested in even behind the Iron Curtain. At first, they think that engineer Kovalský stole them ...

Zodpovednosť (1959)

Štvorylka (1956)

A comedy film taking an ironic view of the bourgeois period prior to the First World War. ...

Red Poppy (1955)

A story set in revolutionary China, whose proletariat suffers and starves, but refuses to be passive and rises to decisive resistance. Even the artists believe in the victory of the working class, and the symbol of this victory becomes the red poppy, a flo ...