Juraj Paška

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. ...

Salt & Gold (1983)

A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruška, fails her father's expectations about proving how de ...

Klenovič Ján (1980)

Poéma o svedomí (1979)

Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944. ...

Život je sen (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 ...

Kazko Vlasko (1978)

Príbelská vzbura Janka Kráľa (1978)

The plot takes place in the revolutionary year of 1848. It takes us to Príbelice, where Janko Kráľ returns from Pest after the March Revolution, to acquaint the Slovak people with the famous Twelve Points, together with his friend, teacher Ján Rotaride ...

Dravý prúd (1977)

Koruna lásky a smrti (1977)

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 ...

Meridián (1976)

Španielska gitara (1976)

Čenkovej deti (1975)

Nový systém (1974)

Jaríkovský kostol (1974)

Dynamit (1973)

The drama of a man driven to crime by the mechanism of violence in an American prison. It is an indictment of American justice and the barbarically cruel methods of prison staff. Based on Jack London's novel "The Star Rover". ...

Desatinka citu (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 ...

Dosť dobrí chlapi (1972)

A group of drivers paid according to their performance are struggling with hard work in a large quarry, somewhere where foxes say good night. A new worker, Marek Orban, joins the team of foreman Peter Hotka, known as Maco. Deep down, he is a deeply moral p ...

Kráľ sa zabáva (1971)

Vassa Železnovová (1970)

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. ...

Hernani (1967)

Francois Villon – spor o básnika (1967)

Pred súdom (1966)

Stratený list (1965)

Marína Havranová (1964)

Smoliarka (1964)

A Face in the Window (1963)

A movie built up of three stories about life in a small Slovak town. The Prosecutor: the district attorney is a jazz orchestra soloist at the same time and that is much disliked by the local provincial society. The Defender: is about a young doctor's relat ...

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. ...

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 Jánošík [1688-1713] and the social situation in Slovakia of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The first part talks ...

Vráťte mi školné (1963)

Keď chybí trombón (1962)

Polnoc bude o päť minút (1962)

Skaly a ľudia (1960)

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 First World War. It was the biggest and deadliest rebellion in the Austro-Hungarian army. ...

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 model is a young girl. This is much disliked by the clergy who unjustly accuse the girl of witchcraft. She ...

The Devil Does Not Sleep (1957)

Episodic film consisting of three satirical shorts ('Smutný káder', 'Typický prípad' and 'Vel'korysá kampaň') comically exposing the shortcomings of society. In the interval between each short, a committee recognising themselves in the characters on ...

Štvorylka (1956)

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

Priehrada (1950)

The construction of a large dam in Slovakia is hindered by the influence of small farmers on the landowner Bujna, on whom they depend for help with the harvest and for monetary loans. ...

Wolves' Lairs (1948)

This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants. ...

White Darkness (1948)

A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers. ...

Beware! (1947)

A drama about Slovaks who emigrated before WW I. It is focused on the life of Ondrej Muranica. He emigrates to America because of the hard life that is partly caused by Hungarian landowners. His dreams and hopes for a happier life are destroyed by a disast ...