Peter Šimun

Tak zle, ako sa len dá (2023)

Five benches. Five different stories. Five couples. Each dealing with the same thing - love and relationships. If you think it can't get any worse, it can. Two young teenagers Alica and Kevin, homeless Jano and Zoli, partners Miška and Karel, two metal bu ...

Invalid (2023)

Grumpy handyman Laco loses everything to a group of mobsters. Now wheelchair-bound and with his life spiraling, it's his new friend Gabo, a local Roma who helps Laco see things with a new perspective. Revenge is sweet. ...

Kryštof (2021)

The story of a barely grown man who lives as a fresh postulant before vows in a community of monks. He not only shares with his brothers their world of contemplation, but also, as a link in a long chain, he takes those persecuted by the communist regime ac ...

Healing Waters (2020)

The Queen of the Waterland gives the King Juraj access to the water of life when his daughter is seriously ill. However, if the magic fluid falls into the wrong hands, it loses its power. ...

Nero a Seneca (2019)

The meeting of the most bloodthirsty emperor Nero and the Stoic philosopher Seneca during one hot night in the Roman arena. The long conversation, which is really just a deliberate delay of Seneca's execution, results in a tense polemic about man's relatio ...

Johanka's Secret (2015)

A new man comes into the world and his fate is watched over by three female judges. One of them endows him with exceptional qualities, the second puts many obstacles in his way and the third advises him how he can find his happiness in life in spite of eve ...

Wilson City (2015)

Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation i ...

Big Respect (2008)

A comedy about young people, living in the biggest housing estate in Bratislava, who are looking for a piece of their happiness. Inseparable friends Peter and Mišo fight together, try to figure out how to impress babies and share "life wisdom". Peter like ...

Slečna Dušehojivá (2000)

Television adaptation of the classic novel by American author N. West. ...

Hanele (1999)

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World War in a little Ruthenian schtetl which, in true Hassidic fashion, awaits the arrival of the Messiah. But Hanele de ...

Rivers of Babylon (1998)

Dark satire about bare-knuckled capitalism in the immediate post-Cold War era. Set just as the Communist government is collapsing, the film focuses on the brutish Racz, the handyman in a Bratislava hotel. Knowing that his job is insured for life, Racz turn ...

Priateľstvá padajúceho lístia (1998)

Agáta, a sensitive and impractical childless widow, is placed in a retirement home not out of neglect or poverty but because her middle-aged relatives, overwhelmed by their own responsibilities, believe she will fare better among peers. Unprepared for lif ...

Golden Horseshoe, Golden Pen, Golden Hair (1998)

The biographical story of Pavel Emanuel Dobšinský - a television film about the life and knowledge of a man who managed to stay true to himself, his people and his ideas despite the times. The story begins at the end of the great storyteller's life, when ...

Dušička (1995)

A marriage marked by the woman's mental illness, which not only determines the marital relations, but also makes the common life for both partners somehow emotionally deeper and stronger, although it eventually comes to an unexpected conclusion. ...

Spoveď (1994)

Angel of Mercy (1993)

The love story between a young widow and an austrian-hungarian army officer during the First World War. ...

Handrigula (1993)

The story of little Omylka, strong in his faith in goodness, purity, friendship and the great Hndrigul, who was born by human indifference to some essential parts of life. A television production of a rock fairy tale - a clown show about good and evil with ...

Slepý Geronimo a jeho brat (1993)

The story of a brother's hard-tested love, based on Arthur Schnitzler's novel. ...

Posledný cocktail (1993)

Vymyslení ľudia (1992)

A comedic speculative story about a screenwriter who one day discovers that he shares the same fate as his characters. He too becomes just a character in a life scenario that someone invents. ...

Lorenzaccio (1991)

Ženské oddelenie (1991)

The paths of three women meet in a hospital room. They all perceive life as a gift, not as a meaningless punishment. By believing in life, they overcome all obstacles and seek their own dignity. Their life stories are connected by kind humor and a strong h ...

Jacobowski a plukovník (1990)

Hrdina západu (1989)

Štek (1989)

Young provincial actor Perda, long confined to minor roles, is cast unexpectedly as the lead in a vacuous new play by an ambitious writer. Despite a lackluster script and an audience that largely abandons the performance at intermission, the production pro ...

Kamene (1989)

Maškarný ples (1989)

Someone Like Me (1988)

A musical comedy about the children of Czech Republic and their summer adventures. ...

Tvár v rose (1988)

Parazit (1988)

A television production of F. Schiller's comedy with the eloquently ambiguous subtitle How to Arrange Happiness in Life. A story about a social parasite, schemer and hypocrite who shamelessly abuses human gullibility and good-naturedness for the benefit of ...

Run, He Is Coming! (1987)

A comedy about happiness, Indian magic and adultery. One day Mr and Mrs Sysel happen to solve the problem of lacking enough room in their tiny flat. They break through the wall into their neighbour's comfortable flat, from which they borrow not only additi ...

King Thrushbeard (1984)

When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as ...

Sweet Troubles (1984)

A comedy about Simon, an honest, clever confectioner. In practical life, the humble bachelor becomes an easy prey to his boss, his mother, and hordes of women eager to get married. The story incorporates well-tested methods of nearly all major periods in t ...

Man Is Not Desirable (1984)

A young teacher grows up in a small Slovak village during the Second World War. ...

Dedinský sen (1984)

An old woman dreams her last dream in the house where she has lived all her life, but now she has to leave it. Divided into five separate, internally coherent parts, the story recapitulates her life while remaining a universal final recapitulation of each ...

Haló, mami! (1984)

Štvrtý rozmer (1983)

Miesto pre dvoch osamelých cyklistov (1983)

Palculienka (1983)

Hrnčiarsky bál (1982)

Zajac na diaľnici (1982)

Izba naivného deda (1981)

Hra na telo (1980)

Muž, ktorého srdce je na vysočine (1980)

Television adaptation of the short stories "Laughter" and "The Man with the Heart in the Highlands" by the American writer William Saroyan. ...

Čarovná čaša (1980)

Najatý klaun (1980)

Veselé panie z Windsoru (1980)

Sir John Falstaff, a bon vivant and womanizer, courts Mrs. Ford one day and Mrs. Page the next. They are cheerful but respectable ladies, so they devise a plan to punish the old rogue and teach him a lesson about his immoral advances and womanizing. ...

Zhŕňajova nevesta (1978)

The rich farmer Shrnej is such a miser that he won't even marry so he doesn't have to support his wife and won't even allow his servant to do so. He uses his wits and comes up with a ruse - when the farmer goes to town, he sees a girl at the crossroads who ...

Penelopa (1978)

An emancipated restorer restores rare castle frescoes in an ancient village with figures of ancient heroines - and one of them, Penelope, resembles an old woman who has been waiting for the return of her husband and son for forty years, who have supposedly ...

Putička Li (1978)

Biele vrany (1977)