Ľudovít Reiter

The Apricot Jam (1989)

Television adaptation of F. Kárinthyho's story about how important it is to have a sense of home. The apricot jam symbolizes the home, family well-being, which the little boy Ferko, living with his parents in a Hungarian town of the 30's of the 20th centu ...

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. ...

I Love, You Love (1988)

The drama called I Love, You Love was made in 1980 but because of the absurd ideological ban, the film entered cinemas nine years later. Pišta is an unmarried man who works at a freight wagon which carries letters and parcels. Alcohol helps him to overcom ...

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 ...

Návrat Jána Petru (1986)

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 ...

Chlapec do náručia (1986)

The Feather Fairy (1985)

A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desi ...

Dies irae (1984)

A 1984 Slovak language drama film directed by Martin Tapák. ...

Miesto pre dvoch osamelých cyklistov (1983)

Otec (1981)

Small Yozko, who lives with his mother, dreams of a real father, whose ideal is embodied in a tractor motorcyclist on Formula nickname. However, his mother perceives cheerful cool formula, finding it, like many villagers, frivolous. Friendship Formula fill ...

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 ...

Katera (1981)

Otec ma zderie tak, či tak... (1980)

Little Vinco longs to play in the village brass band even though his teachers say he has no musical ear. After many problems at home with his parents and at school, Vinco finally makes it in the village orchestra as a heligan player when he obeys his uncle ...

Demokrati (1980)

Najatý klaun (1980)

Blízke diaľavy (1979)

Horúci dych (1978)

Rose Tinted Dreams (1977)

Jakub, a dreamer and budding magician, juggles between parcels and services rendered to the villagers. His eyes cross that of the beautiful gypsy Jolanka. Together, they will try to live a first and big love, despite the pressure of their respective commun ...

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. ...

Tetované časom (1976)

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. ...

Trofej neznámeho strelca (1974)

Veľké pokušenie (1974)

Dolina (1973)

A dramatic story of the emotional, moral and political maturation of two young people during the Slovak National Uprising. ...

Ďaleko je do neba (1973)

Letokruhy (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 ...

If I Had a Gun (1971)

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge. ...

Hľadači svetla (1971)

Kára (1970)

Čierna minúta (1970)

A teenage boy has problems not only with his own parents, who have no interest in marital fidelity, but also with his still unsettled love affair with both the petite girl next door and the provocative model. He gradually discovers that the adult world is ...

Strieborný Neptún (1970)

Brat (1970)

A television film based on a novella "Zhanobená krv" ("Dishonored Blood") by František Švantner. ...

The Genius (1969)

A metaphorical story about the conflict of human reason and ideals with the dehumanizing mechanism of social institutions. A satire criticizing the negative relations between people, condemning the evils of human characters and the resulting qualities - pr ...

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 ...

The Deserter and the Nomads (1968)

An apocalyptic story of three wars in three film tales encompassing the end of the WWI,WWII, as well as a vision of the world destroyed by nuclear weapons. This film was honored at the film festivals in Venice and Sorrento. Immediately after that the copy ...

Čisté ruky (1968)

Dragon's Return (1968)

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Leaps, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He lost his wife, his home, a ...

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 ...

Saint Elizabeth Square (1966)

Film adaptation of Rudolf Jašík's novel of the same name. The plot of the film is situated in the forties of our century, in the first years of the Second World War. It captures the political and social atmosphere of one of the Slovak towns that lives se ...

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 ...

Brothers (1962)

A bricklayer, Jozef Haviar, decides to live with his family on the small farm of his father through the difficult years of the economic crisis. But on his return to his father's house he gets into a conflict with his brother. The life-and-death conflict be ...

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 ...

Soccer Fans (1961)

Three soccer fans are determined to do literally anything to get to the soccer match between Czechoslovakia and the famous representation team of Brazil. Reaching their goal to see the dream match live cannot he precluded neither by a sudden work task nor ...

Jerguš Lapin (1960)

Little Jerguš's father was killed by gendarmes. To help his mother, the boy is hired as a laborer, then goes to the factory, to the city, but, unable to withstand the cruel exploitation, hoping to become free and independent, returns to the mountains, whe ...

Pán a hvezdár (1960)

On this naive and awkwardly narrated fairy tale it is remarkable that it also established the tradition of fairy tale stories in Slovakia. A certain refinement is the framing of the whole story with a puppet show that moves into the played scenes. The film ...

Dom na rázcestí (1959)

Because abortions required complicated approvals, an enterprising doctor secretly set up a sort of private practice where she offered this "service" illegally. However, the sympathetic doctor who was supposed to become a valuable helper in this business fl ...

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. ...

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 ...

Žena z Vrchov (1956)

A dramatic story of a young woman, Mária Kedrová, who gradually breaks free from her humiliating position in her family and society in the post-war years. Tired of the inhumane work and tyranny on behalf of her husband's kulak family, after endless humil ...

The Wooden Village (1955)

Slovak movie is based on the novel by the prominent representative of Slovak prose František Hečka, who was in 1952 awarded the State Prize. The novel and the movie successfully capture the development of Slovak village after the liberation in 1945. The ...

Unploughed Field (1954)

The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Peter Jilemnický is a drama about the life of poor Kysuce miners, which takes place in the thirties during the economic crisis. During the peak wave of emigration, the dream of a better life drives thou ...