Lotár Radványi

Zlatý hlas (2004)

Lesní chodci (2003)

In the story of two generations searching for a fixed point in their lives, the film offers a reflection on the possibilities of escaping the reality of place, time and human responsibility. In a narrative between fiction and documentary, the past and the ...

Zlatý chlieb (2001)

Piece of land (2000)

Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small towns and villages. ...

Orbis Pictus (1997)

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on th ...

Tajomstvo šťastia (1995)

On one side stands an evil sorcerer, on the other a good Old Man. Between them, the unhappy Janek struggles for his happiness, Princess Alina for her love, and the unhappy king searches for self-respect. The miraculous stone that Janek has received from th ...

Dvadsaťštyri hodín zo života istej ženy (1994)

In the early 20th century, in the surroundings of a luxurious boarding house and casino, the story of a mature woman and an immature young man unfolds. He is obsessed with gambling, she with the desire to save him with her love. It happened twenty years ag ...

Earthly Disturbance (1993)

A film examines the inner worlds of the three protagonists - two women living in solitary seclusion and a man suddenly breaking into their privacy. ...

Zlý žart (1993)

The tragicomedy of a man who, by inappropriately attending the wedding of his subordinate, wants to demonstrate humanistic thinking in a society that is not ripe for such ideas. However, it turns out that even for him humanism is just a declared empty conc ...

Najdúch (1992)

Jahňa chudobného (1992)

Júlia (1990)

Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)

Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down. ...

Blšiak (1989)

Kára plná bolesti (1986)

War takes its cruel toll, which everyone must pay. It hits a small Slovak village especially hard, where the struggle for a bare life becomes a test of human character. For two impoverished friends, Jakub and Maja, struggling through poverty is more than d ...

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. ...

Letný strom radosti (1984)

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. ...

Drahý strýčko (1984)

Profesor na bielom koni (1984)

Oko za oko (1984)

A television adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic drama. The story of the virtuous Isabella, who must save her brother from execution at the cost of her own honor. Through the story of the seductive Angelo and the beautiful Isabella, Claudio, and Ju ...

Kirchhoffov zákon (1984)

The Millennial Bee (1983)

A family saga taking place mostly in a small Slovak village over a period of thirty years (1887–1917). The first part captures the life of Martin Pichandu in the development of his craft, masonry; in the second part, his son is center stage living in a p ...

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. ...

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 ...

Mefisto a Faust v Paríži (1983)

Člny proti prúdu (1982)

War tests human character severely, because the slightest suspicion of failure is hard to live with. A resistance worker who finds himself in such a situation would rather sacrifice his own life in order to dispel once and for all the doubts of those aroun ...

I Judge You by Love (1982)

A sociological drama with a detective plot taking place in the period of industry and agriculture collectivization of the 1950s. Peter Lánik, a young lawyer, during a trial finds out that whom he thought to be his father is in fact only his stepfather. Li ...

Bite sa, pán Jedlinský! (1982)

Nech sa niekto opováži alebo Ako Ďuro Konôpka o fujaru prišiel (1982)

O smelom krajčírikovi (1982)

Oddychový čas (pre sudcu) (1982)

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 ...

Desiaty chlap (1981)

Macbeth (1981)

A tragedy of great and bloody conflicts, turbulent emotions and clashes, centred on a couple torn by passion – Macbeth and his wife, who persuades him to seize the throne. Macbeth murders the king, but must fight for power against the king's descendants. ...

Vojvodkyňa z Amalfi (1980)

A Suspended Game (1980)

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

Cnostný Metod (1980)

Druhovia (1980)

Klenovič Ján (1980)

Aký požičaj – taký vráť (1980)

Rosnička (1979)

The security forces, loyal to the people, uncover the conspiracy. At the center of the intrigue is an average actor who suddenly becomes dizzy from unexpected praise. It takes the young man a long time to wake up from his dreams, to understand how he has b ...

Poéma o svedomí (1979)

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

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. ...

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. ...

Žiadne veľké slová (1979)

Život je sen (1979)

Dvere dokorán (1978)

The story of a young college student who loses his parents and well-off family background in a car accident. He gradually finds inner balance with the help of a group of young workers whose friendship helps him overcome difficult life problems. ...

Súkromná vojna (1978)

Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short period of time just before the outbreak of the uprising. It is the story of a man who wages his "private" war against the man who is responsible for the se ...

The Lawyer (1978)

The story of a young lawyer who finds herself in a difficult situation when she encounters troubles in her burgeoning career and complications in private her life. ...

Einsteinov úsmev (1978)

Inkognito (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 ...

Zbojníci (1978)

Odsúdenie Paganiniho (1977)

Bludička (1977)

Humánna povinnosť (1977)

Škola klebiet (1977)

Vacations at Grandma's (1977)

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

Pozor, ide Jozefína... (1977)

A satirical story about a young teacher, Josefína, who resolutely embarks on a fight against a group of bricklayers who demand exorbitant prices for their dubious and poor-quality services and, under the pretext of helping, rob the inhabitants of a wester ...

Rozdelení (1977)

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

Sen o Krištofovi Kolumbusovi (1977)

Tlstibáb (1977)

Zlaté klasy (1977)

Zypa Cupak (1976)

Zypa Cupak - with this strangely distorted name, the arduous journey of father Ďur to his nephew's wedding in Belgrade begins. After all, not understanding a foreign language can mean great difficulties and many misunderstandings. And although father Ďur ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posledný pohárik (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. ...

Ešte sa nevraciam (1976)

Milosrdný čas (1976)

Letec nad planétou (1976)

Zlatá runa (1976)

Horali (1975)

Takmer dokonalý muž (1975)

Stretnutie (1975)

A dramatic tale of a man's life marked by two world wars. The story is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the life of the Dobrik couple after the outbreak of World War I, the second part develops the life events of their son Peter, who fough ...

Kto odchádza v daždi... (1975)

A drama from the period of village collectivisation in 1947-1948, it depicts the life of former beggars who, after the war and land reform, acquire land and dream of becoming wealthy landlords. New social conditions, the onset of collectivisation, but also ...

Big Night and Big Day (1975)

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

Zlaté jabĺčko (1975)

Nový systém (1974)

Džbán plný ambrózie (1974)

An original television production based on the life of Slovak writer Jozef Gregor Tajovský. ...

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)

Veľké pokušenie (1974)

Zorenka (1974)

Svetlo na spodnej haluzi (1973)

Ďaleko je do neba (1973)

Desatinka citu (1973)

Field Lilies (1973)

Two repatriated soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after the First World War. ...

Čierne ovce (1973)

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 ...

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 ...

Človek na moste (1972)

At the beginning of normalization, stories emphasizing civic awareness once again prevailed. The hero here is a teacher from a small village in the foothills, whose inhabitants help the partisans in their fight against fascism. The hero, the only intellect ...

322 (1970)

A story of a man threatened by a fatal illness evaluating his life (the number 322 in the film title stands for the diagnosis of one kind of cancer). He understands his illness as a form of punishment for his cruel deeds in the 1950s. In the face of realit ...

Naši pred bránami (1970)

A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The Gavora family of four leave their secure village home blinded by the vision of a big career and easy earning of money in the capital city. ...

Strieborný Neptún (1970)

Ring voľný (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 ...

Smrť Márie Jankovskej (1968)

Rázcestie (1967)

Master Executioner (1966)

A dramatic story about two friends - fisherman Richardus and municipal executioner Emil Targo takes place at the river Danube, in places that used to be targets of Ottoman raids. But their attraction to the same woman and Emil's betrayal change their indis ...

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. ...