Juraj Kováč

Tvár v rose (1988)

Stávka s čertom (1987)

Návrat Jána Petru (1986)

The False Prince (1985)

The Sultan awaits the arrival of his son, Prince Omar, who has brought up in a distant land. The master tailor and his assistances are making clothes for the prince. Labakan, the most gifted of his assistances, craves to be a Sovereign's heir so he steals ...

Lev Tolstoy (1984)

The film consists of two parts: "Insomnia" and "Departure". We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great ...

Na druhom brehu sloboda (1984)

A dramatic love story in the front line. ...

Dies irae (1984)

A 1984 Slovak language drama film directed by Martin Tapák. ...

Zrelá mladosť (1983)

Biographical film about the work of the young Klement Gottwald. The story depicts his stay in Banská Bystrica, where he edited the Slovak communist press and helped organise the communist revolutionary movement. ...

Popolvar, Biggest in the World (1982)

A fairy-tale about knight honour, punished evil and tender love. Three royal brothers are put to the test in the fight with the king of the underworld in order to save captured princess, Láskykvet. ...

Plavčík a Vratko (1982)

The son of a charcoal burner was once prophesied as a child to marry the daughter of a king. The king tries to prevent this by all means. ...

Živá voda (1981)

Ivan Hálek, son of the famous poet Vítězslav Hálek, studied medicine and devoted his life to the Slovak countryside. In the poor Kysuce region, he not only treats the local villagers, but also makes an extraordinary contribution to education. At the sa ...

Hodiny (1981)

Vták nociar (1981)

Many films have received almost no audience response at the time of their release in cinemas - this one is one of them. The story of a sick writer who returns to his native region to gain new physical and mental strength, however, did not impress, it is to ...

Katera (1981)

A Suspended Game (1980)

While playing Indians two Czechoslovak pioneers are captured by the criminal who wants to cross the border illegally. ...

Hra na telo (1980)

Choď a nelúč sa (1979)

The dramatic story captures the hard and dangerous life of the partisan group "Čapajev" led by Ľudovít Kukorelli during World War II. It retrospectively presents the course of the Slovak National Uprising in eastern Slovakia. ...

Blízke diaľavy (1979)

Pustý dvor (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. ...

Magduška (1979)

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 ...

Zbojnícky tanec (1978)

Zem nezasľúbená (1978)

Christmas Wafer (1977)

Lovely overview of traditional Slovak Christmas. ...

Stratená dolina (1977)

The story of two friends and managers of a mountain hut. The central theme of the film is nature conservation and environmental protection. Friends Mišo and Dušan, who love the Tatras, try to preserve "their" valley as one of the last corners of nature u ...

Racha, My Love (1977)

Visiting Slovakian Racha to get antiquated with Slovakian wine-making techniques, Rachvelian from Georgia, Zauri, falls in love with Slovak Darina. Consequentially, when Darina visits Georgia, Zauri does his best to make her also love him. ...

Zlatá réva (1977)

A contemporary story from the winegrowers' environment about the merger of the JRD. There are mutual conflicts between supporters and opponents of the new project. Šimon Príboj's successful efforts to merge the two farms lose their meaning when he discov ...

10 % nádeje (1976)

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. ...

Horali (1975)

Big Night and Big Day (1975)

Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village. ...

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 ...

Očovské pastorále (1973)

The story of a peasant whose harshness and bluntness only provoke disputes and anger, and his honesty and sense of truth and honor in conjunction with the previous qualities only exacerbate these disputes. The Slovak village with its collective farming, co ...

Hriech Kataríny Padychovej (1973)

Štefan Padych loses a lawsuit against Šulgan, a local innkeeper to whom he owes money. Not wanting his wife and three-year-old daughter to starve, he decides to leave for France. However, after his departure, his wife Katarína Padych commits infidelity ...

Sheperds Wife (1972)

Television film based on the classic Slovak drama by Ivan Stodola. The theme of the play is the return of a supposedly dead man. The Ondrej-Eva-Mišo relationship triangle will only be solved by the death of one of them. ...

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. ...

Maroško študuje (1970)

Stopy na Sitne (1969)

Slovak partisans, bravely fighting against Nazi superiority, would never have succeeded to such an extent if they had not been supported by the villagers. Despite the threat of repression, it is the villagers who care for the wounded, hide them, and behave ...