Ladislav Chudík

Freedom Under Load (2016)

With hundred kilos on their backs they are facing storms, blizzards and deep snow. Their craft is not only a profession, but also their way to the calmness. We get to know the oldest generation of the porters in the High Tatras, who climb with supplies to ...

Red Captain (2016)

Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of the forme ...

Tančiareň (2013)

Dancing through Slovak history of the twentieth century. Based on the Theatre du Campagnol performance "Le Bal" by Jean-Claude Penchenat, written by M. Huba and M. Porubjak. A dance locale - a place where people who are looking for partners come together. ...

Kawasaki's Rose (2009)

Loyalty, history and regret take center stage for university professor Pavel Josek, lauded for standing up to the communist regime when it counted most. But as a TV documentary starts to focus in on the facts of his past, new truths are uncovered which may ...

All My Loved Ones (1999)

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama ...

O sirotkovi z Radhoště (1997)

The story of little orphan Michálek, whom the greedy greengrocer Haboš wants to rob of his cottage, so he lures him on a journey to find treasure and abandons him in a dark cave. Dobroděj, Lord of Radhošť, shows Michálek the way to a magical flower i ...

Čierna ovca (1997)

Television film with Radošino Naive Theatre and its guests. ...

Milan Rúfus (1993)

Vetrom ošľahané, dažďom obmývané (1991)

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 ...

Vianoce Adama Boronču (1988)

The film story of an old mountaineer from Zázrivá, takes place on the eve of Christmas Eve. Július Pántik stars in the lead role of the television film based on the short story of the same name by L. Nádaši - Jégé. It is a story about belonging and ...

Martin Benka a hudba (1988)

Candidate (1987)

Based on novel "The Great Man" by Al Morgan. Ted Stevens receives a task to prepare a TV special about his colleague Tony Bradley, recently died in car accident. But the further he studies this case, the more suspicious this accident is becoming. ...

The Great Movie Robbery (1987)

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaise ...

Dve balady (1986)

Chlapec do náručia (1986)

Tiene v raji (1986)

Forget Mozart (1985)

In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, who considered Mozart a potential revolutionary. Over the corpse, he interrogates them, trying to discover ...

Ulička stratených snov (1985)

Zlatná krajina (1985)

Výlet do mladosti (1984)

A lyrical picture of student life. A romantic story of first student love seen through the eyes of an aging writer's memories. In the last years of his life, National Artist Štefan Králík, in addition to his theatrical work, also worked for television. ...

Putování Jana Amose (1983)

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his encounters with various European personalities of the 17th century - the Queen of Sweden, artists and scientists. It ...

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 ...

Rodinná anamnéza (1983)

A free sequel to the film A Trip to Youth. In the TV film Family History, we meet the writer Tomáš, who in a reminiscent conversation with a well-known cardiologist professor returns to his student years. The story is based on the life experiences of the ...

Vrabci z devátého poschodí (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. ...

Pasca (1981)

After the death of a forest engineer who was deeply connected to nature, his younger brother naturally takes care of his widow and daughter. Their quiet understanding and shared knowledge of the one who is no longer with them gradually grows into something ...

Nedokončená partia (1981)

An original TV adaptation of a play about human solidarity. The story of a man who, feeling guilty for the death of his son, retreats into isolation for several years, but an unexpected situation forces him to return to active life. This television play, w ...

Dnes platí regulačný stupeň č. 6 (1980)

Build a House, Plant a Tree (1980)

Juraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to hi ...

Kamarátky (1979)

A psychological film about a young woman, mother of two, who is abandoned by her husband for her lover. The woman desperately seeks understanding and help from her two best friends. But they have neither the will nor the time to share her problems. ...

Place of the World Istanbul (1979)

An alcoholic tries to rob an intellectual and suddenly recognises him as his childhood friend. They recall their childhood mischief and their glorious time, which was at the beginning of the First World War, which was at first somewhere far away, but its t ...

Eugen Onegin (1979)

Doktor Jorge (1978)

Koníček Hrbáčik (1978)

Spolužiak (1978)

Based on the paradoxical life story of a small-time Viennese postman, a former classmate of the "great" Hermann Göring, this television drama depicts the difficult position of the so-called "little man," first under the Nazi regime and later in the postwa ...

Višňový sad (1978)

The Liberation of Prague (1977)

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discuss ...

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 ...

One Silver Piece (1976)

It is summer 1944. The war is far away from Slovak mountains for the time being. The head of forest management Borodác brings a new employee to complete the eight woodcutters work team of Czechs, Slovaks and one Pole - the young guy is Martin Uher, a form ...

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 ...

Demeterovci (1976)

A television film based on a play by Ján Kákoš with the theme of Slovak National Uprising. ...

Kean (1975)

Sokolovo (1975)

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops fo ...

Škriatok (1974)

Do zbrane, kuruci (1974)

Trofej neznámeho strelca (1974)

Cid (1974)

Ximéná and Rodrigo love each other, but in order to remain worthy of each other, they decide to fulfill the command of honor. Don Rodrigo avenges the insult that Ximéná's father caused his father, and Ximéná asks the king to punish Rodrigo. The king ...

Podezření (1973)

A crime story about Western diplomats in Prague. ...

Hadí princ (1973)

Monna Vanna (1973)

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. ...

Pictures of the Old World (1972)

A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entir ...

Until The Rooster Crows (1972)

Existentialist drama based on the play of the same name by the Slovak writer Ivan Bukovčan. The story of ten apparently randomly selected people placed in a beer hall of a small town during the Nazi occupation of Slovakia. Slowly, facts begin to emerge, c ...

Úklady a láska (1971)

Luk královny Dorotky (1971)

Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love, the petty and insidious betrayals of trust. ...

Adrift (1971)

A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young w ...

Básnik Ľudo Ondrejov (1971)

Karola (1969)

„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. ...

Volanie démonov (1968)

In Slovakia, they also created a pair of investigators who have appeared in several films. Volanie démonov is the third of them. The police officers, one Maigret-like, thoughtful, the other humorously hasty, this time solve a fire in a furniture factory a ...

Koniec a začiatok (1968)

Television adaptation of Roman Kaliský's play. Reconstruction of a trial with a journalist from the 1950s. ...

Murderer from Beyond the Grave (1967)

The detective case of Captain Jakubec and his colleague Lieutenant Michalek takes place in a small town where the auditor Burian dies after drinking a health syrup. The doctor concludes that it was a heart attack. However, the exhumation of the corpse conf ...

Smrť prichádza v daždi (1966)

A Slovak detective story set in contemporary Bratislava and featuring ordinary people with their own everyday problems. The violent death of Olga Holešová places them under heavy suspicion of murder. A series of strange coincidences and circumstances com ...

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 ...

Dobrodružstvo so spravodlivosťou (1963)

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. ...

White Clouds (1962)

Autumn 1944, the Slovak National Uprising is suppressed and the fighters must withdraw to the mountains. Commander Repta's unit takes along the thirteen-year old Zuzka, who lost her home and all her relatives in the rebellion. But the enemy brutally pursue ...

Midnight Mass (1962)

On Christmas Eve, 1944, in Nazi-occupied Slovakia, the Kubiš family grapples with survival amidst brutal reprisals. Marián collaborates as a fascist guard leader, while his sister Angela has an affair with their Nazi lodger, Major Brecker. The situation ...

The Coward (1962)

In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with a ...

Pohled do očí (1961)

Olga Valentová, whose father was a communist resistance fighter and died during the occupation, works in the export department of Tatrovka. The young woman recapitulates her life and returns to her father's ideals. ...

Osení (1961)

Set in a village, the story of a simple-minded, not-so-responsible young man who still manages to take care of his younger siblings after their father has left the family. Good thing he could lean on the principles of exemplary socialist morality. Not surp ...

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 ...

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 ...

V hodine dvanástej (1959)

Nazi soldiers committed atrocities even when sober – and if they got drunk, they did even worse. The inhabitants of a Slovak village during the national uprising learn this when they have to accept an arrogant Hitlerite guard. When two soldiers go missin ...

Posledný návrat (1959)

Peter and Lena had a daughter, Zuzka, soon after their wedding. Lena graduated from drama school and wanted to act, but there were no vacancies in the theater in the city where they lived, and she was forced to join a traveling troupe. Lena was away from h ...

The Black Battalion (1958)

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam. ...

Earthly Honor (1958)

Historical satire from the first half of the 19th century, which captures the decay and decline of the landed estate. The impoverished peasants still seem to adhere to the old principles of peasant honor and glory, but the elections will show how easy it i ...

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. ...

Dva barančeky (1958)

Pán hlavný, prosím! (1957)

Neporažení (1956)

As Nazi troops prepare to occupy the already truncated Czechoslovak Republic, a small military garrison made up of communists defies orders to abandon their post. ...

Spartakiáda (1956)

Documentary by Jan Kadar ...

Můj přítel Fabián (1955)

The story of a gypsy named Fabian, who came to work in Kunčice, and his son. Their lives change fundamentally on the great construction site of socialism. They both learn to read and write; Fabian becomes a skilled welder, and little Fabian is accepted in ...

Expres z Norimberka (1954)

An adventure film about the struggle of the Czechoslovak security authorities against Western agents. In an express train departing from Nuremberg station, a cigarette box with plans and instructions for the destruction of one of the Czechoslovak dams is s ...

Vlna je na horách (1954)

Oravská priehrada (1954)

Sme tvorcami svojho šťastia (1954)

Vianočný dar (1954)

Nástup (1953)

"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name ...

Okamih rozhoduje (1953)

Lazy sa pohly (1952)

The life on the poor Slovak hills, the lazy hills, where agriculture is at a primitive stage and where the shelves give a small harvest. Meanwhile, socialist industrialization is reaching an amazing boom in the valleys. Therefore, it is necessary to solve ...

Bardejov (1952)

Hrdza – nepriateľ päťročnice (1952)

Mlieko (1952)

The Struggle Will End Tomorrow (1951)

The story of the great strike of the workers building the Cervena Skala - Mergecany railway line ...

Kozie mlieko (1951)

Krompachy (1951)

Drevo (1951)

San José (1951)

Súkeníctvo kedysi a dnes (1951)

Zelené priehrady (1950)

A document on the importance of forests to the national economy. It represents forests not only as a rich storehouse of wood, but also as an important factor for continuous water supply, as they regulate the water cycle and prevent both droughts and floods ...

Spoločnou silou (1950)

Documentary film about the advantages of joint farming in unified agricultural cooperatives. ...

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. ...

Oceľová cesta (1950)

Documentary film about the Slovak Youth Line - a railway line built by the Czechoslovak youth from Hronská Dúbrava to Báňská Štiavnica and Letovice. ...

Tatranský pohár 1950 (1950)

A documentary film about a large international competition organized in February 1950 in the Tatras, in which athletes from nine nations participated in all disciplines. ...

Neznáme ruky (1949)

Záleží na nás (1949)

Svet najmenších (1949)

Cesta k slnku (1949)

A predsa sa stavalo... (1949)

Odkazy minulosti (1948)

Documentary about the ethnographic museum in Turčanský sv. Martin, which represents the way of life of the Slavs, living in what used to be today's territory of Slovakia. ...

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. ...

Svetlo a sila (1948)

Nová škola (1948)

Za práva ľudu (1948)

Pieseň strojov (1948)

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 ...