Ivan Rajniak

Zuzanka Hraškovie (1991)

A television film based on Pavel Orsaght Hviezdoslav's impressive epic composition, which became the basis for Vincent Šikula's screenplay. Among the values that are eternal and must be constantly sought is the love of children for their parents and vice ...

Dúhová cesta (1991)

Holič Britva a duch Vydriduch (1990)

Hrdina západu (1989)

Staroružová dráma (1989)

This two-part production follows the lives of three generations of women from the Jablonczay family at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The first part begins in 1882 and focuses on the two older generations. The eldest, Maria (Emília Vášáryová ...

Posledná hodina (1988)

Hriech (1987)

Dramatization of four classic one-act plays by J. G. Tajovský: "Hriech" (Sin, 1911), "Tma" (Darkness, 1912), "V službe" (In the Service, 1911) and "Matka" (Mother, 1906), which capture the image of social changes and changes in people's thinking prior to ...

Návrat Jána Petru (1986)

Dulcinea z Tobosa (1986)

O všetečnom zvedavcovi (1986)

Zbohom, sladké driemoty (1984)

A psychological film depicting the professional beginnings of a young architect. As the head of a design studio, his uncompromising attitude arouses hostility and hatred from colleagues and subordinates accustomed to an easy life through patronage and brib ...

Drahý strýčko (1984)

Dedova truhlica (1984)

Predčasné leto (1983)

Premature motherhood causes serious emotional and psychological problems; the young mother, deceived in her first, still naive love, thinks that she has not yet enjoyed anything and already has to take care of the baby. Even finishing high school becomes a ...

Husiarka a kráľ (1983)

Dorotka is a poor orphan who works as a shepherdess for rich farmers. Their mischievous son often torments her. One day, he chases a goose away from her pasture. While searching for it, Dorotka meets an old woman who not only punishes the mischievous man, ...

Predohra v mol (1983)

Dozrievanie (1982)

The story of a young, university-qualified agronomist Tomáš Rajecký and his humanly complicated opponent, Viliam Kubica, who has been tempered and hardened by years of practice and is the chief agronomist of the unified farmers' cooperative in Machov, s ...

Trieda plná pýchy (1982)

Hodiny (1981)

Maškaráda (1981)

A poetic-psychological composition depicting the fate of an elderly man who succumbed to false social information, which drove him to a tragic act. ...

Ostrov (1981)

The author attempted to analyze the disintegration of the Slovak Army before the outbreak of the SNP and showed how the conditions grew for the army to join the Uprising. Through the characters of soldiers and officers of a small unit of the Slovak Army, d ...

Zaujímaví muži (1981)

Fatamorgána (1981)

Svadba Arneho Jurgu (1980)

Dnes platí regulačný stupeň č. 6 (1980)

Jennie Gerhardtová (1980)

Nebezpečné známosti (1980)

The beautiful, bright and intelligent, but perfectly mischievous Marquise de Mertuil and her charming and equally depraved and ruthless friend, the master of seduction Vicomte de Valmont play a cynical game full of intrigue. The marquise is willing to devo ...

Aký požičaj – taký vráť (1980)

Falošný peniaz (1980)

Zimozel (1980)

Pustý dvor (1979)

Zlodej známok (1979)

Sonatína pre páva (1979)

Smrť chodí po horách (1979)

A television film, an adaptation of Vladimír Mináč's first novel. The dramatic story of two brothers during the Slovak National Uprising provides artistic testimony to authentic events from the Slovak mountains in 1944. ...

Uzlíky nádeje (1979)

Social ballad. Three short stories – "Uzlík tepla", "Chlapec a pánboh" and "Rubári" – depict three different human stories, the common denominator of which is suffering and existential threat. ...

Nie (1978)

The poverty of Slovak workers during the Great Depression during the Masaryk Republic reached such a level that it led to a well-organized strike. The capitalists and their minions tried by all means to break it. Even the workers who had not yet been elect ...

Krutá ľúbosť (1978)

A film based on short stories by K. Przerwu-Tetmajer's Grey Eyes and M. Urban's Melted Heart. The heroines of both stories are young women with the same name - Kristka. They fight for their love, they both love with humility and surrender, but when necessa ...

Zlatý dážď (1978)

Horúci dych (1978)

Stôl pre štrnástich (1978)

Einsteinov úsmev (1978)

Vraj cholera! (1978)

Zbojnícky tanec (1978)

Elektra (1978)

Vysoká cena (1978)

Vacations at Grandma's (1977)

An original television film about a city who goes to the village for vacations and finds real friends there. ...

Poslední parlamentári (1977)

Rose Tinted Dreams (1977)

Jakub, a dreamer and budding magician, juggles between parcels and services rendered to the villagers. His eyes cross that of the beautiful gypsy Jolanka. Together, they will try to live a first and big love, despite the pressure of their respective commun ...

Skrat (1977)

Obhajoba sa nekoná (1977)

Rozdelení (1977)

A story about the love of two young people who were not divided by borders or the cruelty of time. ...

Andersonvillský proces (1976)

Do posledného dychu (1976)

The myth of the anti-fascist resistance in Slovakia was one of the important themes of normalization cinema, of course, treated with an emphasis on the leading role of the communists. This primitively illustrative film depicts the heroic enthusiasm shown b ...

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 each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit. ...

Šepkajúci fantóm (1976)

A dangerous maniac is on the loose in the city, targeting women... The last episode of the free Slovak crime series depicts the fight between law enforcement officers and a maniac who threatens women. An unknown young man cuts several girls with a razor on ...

Prvá nadovšetky (1976)

Demižón (1976)

Serenáda pre Martinu (1976)

Blízki cudzí ľudia (1975)

Ex libris (1975)

Trasovisko (1974)

Television adaptation of Štefan Králik's play. A psychological drama from the interwar period, it depicts the story of a village married couple who live together for seven years, but the desired child does not come. Into this situation comes the husband' ...

Deň, ktorý neumrie (1974)

In the story of a partisan armored train crew operating in the rebel territory of Slovakia, the inner drama of Matúš Siroň, who hates war with a passion, unfolds. After managing to escape from the Eastern Front, he falls into German captivity. When he i ...

Trofej neznámeho strelca (1974)

V tieni šedivých lúk (1974)

Drotárova svadba (1974)

Piková dáma (1974)

Jaríkovský kostol (1974)

Šuster, drž sa kopyta! (1974)

Putovanie do San Jaga (1973)

A wandering magician, capable of listening to the secrets of a child's soul, is able to create a magical land called San Jago di Campanella even in a secluded mountain hunting lodge. He arrives there just before Christmas and is able to give the children t ...

Víťazný pád (1973)

Srdce na lane (1973)

Adam Chvojka vicerichtár (1973)

Ďaleko je do neba (1973)

Návšteva (1973)

Kamaráti (1973)

Timon Aténsky (1973)

A television adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the destructive power of wealth. Timon, a rich and generous Athenian citizen, gives gifts to his friends generously and magnanimously. He helps everyone in need, regardless of their status. However, he ...

Žiarlivosť (1972)

Tomorrow Will Be Too Late (1972)

1943. Captain Ian Nalepke, Chief of Staff of the Slovak regiment, bearing protection of military facilities in the small town of Belarus contacts the partisansand passes to them the obtained information about upcoming operations of the German forces. ...

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 smuggling they return to the Stratená dolina valley and plan a revenge on police lieutenant Pardek. ...

Hajniks Wife (1971)

The dramatization of P. O. Hviezdoslav's epic is a celebration of the moral purity of the Slovak people. Through the trial of gamekeeper Michal Čajka, who is on trial for the murder of young Mr. Artuš, we follow in retrospect the events leading up to the ...

Hľadači svetla (1971)

Kráľ sa zabáva (1971)

Klinko a Kompit kráľ (1971)

The Ginger Cow (1970)

Adam Krt, a village farmer and shoemaker, lives in a happy marriage with his wife Eva. He is only afraid of her when he gets drunk and does something stupid. One day Adam successfully sells all the shoes he has made at a fair and uses the money to buy a he ...

The Copper Tower (1970)

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. ...

Strieborný Neptún (1970)

Ako dvaja našli šťastie (1970)

Ring voľný (1970)

„Od štvrtka do zmŕtvychvstania...“ (1969)

Niet inej cesty (1968)

A biographical film about the Slovak nationalist Ľudovít Štúr. It captures the revolutionary events of 1848 in Austria-Hungary, when Štúr, as a member of the Diet, led the fight for the national rights of the Slovak people. ...

Rok na dedine (1968)

The film presents a parade of customs, music, songs and dances of the Slovak people in four seasons, based on a theatre play by I. Teren and K.L. Zachar from the first years after the liberation. ...

Three Daughters (1968)

A classical ballad motif about an aging father and his three daughters is quite unusually here set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia of the 1950s. After having been expropriated, the former landowner Majda seeks refuge with his three daughters whom he ...

Mother (1968)

A TV film from a mining environment shows the tragic outcome of hatred between brothers. The mother, a simple woman, has an uncanny ability to foresee events ahead. All her life she passively accepts her fate. Despite knowing what awaits her loved ones and ...

Malka (1968)

The story of the television film takes place in the picturesque scenery of the Slovak mountains, amidst beautiful nature. It is a balladic story about the relationship of two young people, about human dreams, desires, and passions. ...

Lúčka, na ktorej spáva vietor (1968)

The Pickpockets (1967)

As unbelievable as it sounds, a stint in prison can really fix things. The old seasoned pickpocket will serve many years before he is released, but he comes out a changed man. He even dares to refuse the lures and threats of an all-powerful criminal gang t ...

Tango pre medveďa (1967)

The unhappy and desperate director of the Šúpala Zoo tries to sell a sick bear to a foreign tourist for shooting, because the purchase of other animals for the ZOO is only possible with anti-socialist currency, i.e. hard currency, and so the administrato ...

Miraculous Virgin (1967)

A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their e ...

Sedem svedkov (1967)

Two criminal investigators try to reconstruct a crime that happened in broad daylight, almost in front of the public, during a nighttime investigation. But the author does not only follow the criminal storyline. The witnesses the investigators call in each ...

Rázcestie (1967)

Three Chestnut Horses (1966)

Magdaléna, pure-hearted and guided by emotion, attracts Zápotočný, a callous egoist and abuser. Their turbulent relationship, set against a backdrop of social hardship, forces Magdaléna to confront the limits of compassion and the price of innocence w ...

Česť (1966)

Zlaté jabĺčko (1966)

The Bells Toll for the Barefooted (1965)

A dramatic story from the end of WW II and a remarkable contemplation of the value of true friendship, meaning and purpose oflife or the possibility to be humane even in inhuma ne conditions. In a frosty mountain setting a cruel struggle for life takes pla ...

Úplně vyřízený chlap (1965)

Ostrava - Kunčice , 1953: on the same day as the manifestation funeral for J. V. Stalin, the funeral of Brigadier Bédi Nevěřil, a tragic victim of the bureaucratic cadre machine... The story unfolds in the memoirs of another brigadier, former journalis ...

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. ...

Pokorené rieky (1962)

Most na tú stranu (1962)

When the young heroine joins a large factory, she has difficulty adapting to the local environment and experiences a series of conflicts before finally joining the work team. This is an exemplary illustration of the thesis that only work truly humanizes a ...