Milan Kňažko

Pan herec Miroslav Donutil (2021)

My Story (2019)

Young talented Elizabeth leaves a successful career in ballet for love. The man who has stolen her heart, however, has a dark side, and in a single moment Elizabeth loses everything dear to her in life. ...

Nežný revolucionár (2019)

Mečiar: The Lust For Power (2017)

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak society, but also on the life of Tereza herself. When the totalitarian communist regime fell in Czechoslov ...

A Soul to Redeem (2017)

For an experienced police commissioner, solving a single murder would be routine, but the killer isn't satisfied with just one victim, and it's not easy to fairly judge who is the victim and who is the killer in this case. ...

Martin Ťapák (2017)

Agáva (2016)

A small border town in the south of Slovakia is surprised by the sudden arrival of respected builder Mr. Hampl and his young wife Nada. She catches the eye of an equally young local teacher, Daniel, who is still recovering from his military experience in T ...

Milan Čorba (2014)

Edgemen (2011)

A businessman unspools a web of espionage and corruption when his bid for a major construction project attracts the attention of an underground network. ...

Čerešňový chlapec (2011)

Domina (2010)

The district town is reeling from the murder of a well-known local businesswoman. She was found dead one morning, dressed in a revealing costume in a dentist's office. The investigation is entrusted to a pair of detectives, Commissioner Petr Brouček and C ...

Nepolepšitelný (2009)

After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, everyone is packing their bags to leave the country. Martin Ivánek, who has just been dismissed from his position as head physician, has a valid passport and an exit visa to the United Kingdom. ...

Les mrtvých (2009)

The drama of a young married couple unfolds during the socially and politically turbulent times of the young Czechoslovak Republic in 1919, when husband Michal decides to take advantage of the still unsettled post-war conditions to enrich himself, which, i ...

Normal (2009)

Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the ...

V hlavní roli (2008)

A crime case will affect the life of a famous actor. ...

Boží duha (2007)

Inspired by Jaroslav Durych's novel of the same name. The story of an aging man—sick, exhausted, and twisted by life—who arrives in the borderlands shortly after the end of the war, searching for the man who denounced and destroyed his family during th ...

Hostel Part II: The Next Level (2007)

Behind the scenes of Eli Roth's horror sequel Hostel 2 (2007). ...

Hostel: Part II (2007)

Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it. ...

Bel ami (2005)

In Belle Epoque Paris, Georges Duroy, a handsome, ambitious but penniless young man, reunites with his friend Forestier, editor-in-chief of a major financial newspaper. Forestier manages to find him a position at the newspaper. With his friend's support, G ...

Rána z milosti (2005)

On the night it happened, Aleš Berka was celebrating his 50th birthday. A successful, mature man at the peak of his powers. Congratulations, gifts, a happy mistress, a healthy son. The fact that one of the guests had an accident at an intersection on his ...

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director's ini­mitable ...

Jen o rodinných záležitostech (1991)

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state. ...

Svědek umírajícího času (1991)

At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius. He ended up on the scaffold along with other gentlemen after losing the anti-Habsburg uprising. Whe ...

The Last Butterfly (1991)

Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the ...

Don't Be Afraid (1989)

Woodcutter Ondra, who for his bold nature is called Nebojsa. He goes into the world to learn fear. During his journey, on which he is accompanied by a cowardly thief Ferka, he can deal with a bunch of bandits, vicious mill, fiery rock and eventually he mus ...

Dobří holubi se vracejí (1989)

The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken refuge to get rid of his addiction. In the rehab, cruelty is personified by the attendant who, with sadistic satisfaction, hands out demerit points for the s ...

Obrana Sokratova (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 ...

The World Knows Nothing (1988)

The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls apart. His German friend forced him to enter the Nazi party. ...

Nine Circles of Hell (1988)

As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely strained by the war's horrors, produces a child. The doctor is separated from his family once Pol Pot assu ...

Maria Stuarda (1988)

Donizetti's opera as film. ...

Papilio (1987)

František Cepl is a young man from a simple family. He graduated from a real school and was going to study technology. When the occupation came, he had to work as a factory assistant. There he meets an older man named Telec, whom everyone knows as Hrabě. ...

Návrat Jána Petru (1986)

...nebo být zabit (1986)

March 1945. It is already quite obvious to the Nazis that they cannot win the war. So it is time to think about the future after the war and to cover their tracks. One concentration camp must be completely cleared out and the prisoners buried in the mines. ...

Chlapec do náručia (1986)

O sláve a tráve (1985)

Each of the four short stories, framed by the figure of the photographer, depicts the lives of women and girls whose work has brought them to the limelight, but also marked their relationships with those closest to them. ...

End of the Lonely Farm Berhof (1985)

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII. ...

Ideálny manžel (1985)

Na druhom brehu sloboda (1984)

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

Heloisa a Abelard (1984)

A classic story about the tragic, yet indestructible love of young Heloise for the heretical monk and medieval philosopher Abelard, who fought with his whole life and work against false church dogmas. - A dramatic metaphor about the necessity of man to fig ...

Jazda na spiacom obrovi (1984)

Epizóda (1984)

Pod cudzím nebom (1984)

Právo na omyl (1983)

Silvestrovské pranie (1983)

Chrobák v hlave (1983)

Otvorený účet (1982)

Clavijo (1982)

Čudné dievča (1981)

Nevěsta k zulíbání (1981)

A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked side by side for years only as colleagues, but whose accidental trip to Slovakia to attend the wedding of Hedin's sister brought them closer, probably for th ...

Hodiny (1981)

Miesto pre zimovisko (1981)

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 ...

Po deviatich rokoch (1981)

Prefíkaná vdova (1981)

Emília Galottiová (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. ...

Mizantrop (1981)

Služobná cesta (1981)

Škola žien (1981)

Dnes platí regulačný stupeň č. 6 (1980)

Karate-gi (1980)

Horacius (1980)

Najatý klaun (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. ...

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. ...

Mandragora (1979)

A television production of a Renaissance comedy by N. Machiavelli. A sharp criticism of society, a sharp satire on the wickedness of the clergy and human stupidity that causes the breakdown of marriage. The old lawyer Calfacci, husband of the young and bea ...

Kde šumí les (1979)

Žiadne veľké slová (1979)

Článok na prvú stranku (1978)

Rusalka (1978)

Three arias from Antonín Dvořák´s fairytale opera Rusalka turned in to a movie, sung by Gabriela Beňačková (Rusalka), Libuše Márová (Witch), René Tuček (Hunter). ...

Klebetnice (1978)

Večera (1978)

Rozvedená (1978)

A play about the issue of family relationships, real and calculated partnership. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Klamstvo dočasu – pravda naveky (1977)

Second Love (1977)

The television production is an episode from the life of Andrej Sládkovič. Braxatoris, known as Sládkovič, comes to Banská Štiavnica and wants to find the inspiration for his poetry - Marína. Her parents reject him. Marína marries Gerža, a rich me ...

The Tapaks (1977)

The life of the Ťapák family is joyless. Twelve of them live in one room, no one considers that it is possible to live differently. They have already gotten used to it - they have no desire to change anything - after all, it has been that way for a long ...

Koruna lásky a smrti (1977)

Anjel prichádza oknom (1976)

Mário a kúzelník (1976)

Tereza (1976)

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 ...

Posledný pohárik (1976)

Čokoládový hrdina (1976)

The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes (1976)

Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to find a girl with those qualities, so Pista sets out on a journey to find the girl of his dreams without knowi ...

Dvakrát do tej istej rieky (1976)

Hodina úsvitu (1975)

Zlaté jabĺčko (1975)

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 ...

Piková dáma (1974)

Amulet (1974)

Za frontom (1973)

Ako ostrihať manžela (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 ...

The Bride of the Mountains (1972)

A balladic story situated in a Slovak mountain region before the 2nd World War. A young man returns to his native village after many years. There he meets Zuna, a mysterious girl of the forest, who opens his eyes to the charming nature to perceive hidden c ...

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. ...

Svadba v Plachtinciach (1972)

Záveje (1972)

Úklady a láska (1971)

Klinko a Kompit kráľ (1971)

Ako klamal jej mužovi (1971)

Ring voľný (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. ...

Koniec a začiatok (1968)

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

Román o base (1968)

Dvanásť (1967)

The Sheriff Behind Bars (1966)

A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate his gesture and ...