Vilma Jamnická

Kovladov dar (1998)

Legend has it: once upon a time, in a tribe ruled by a wise vladyka, there lived two young men, Rastislav and Ctirad. Both of them loved the daughter of the vladyk, Milica. And she loved Rastislav. So the old vladyka decided to give her in marriage to the ...

An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (1997)

Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple's tragic star-crossed love, it also serves as a metaphor for the tragedy of lost traditions. After opening in the snowy wilds as two people spectacular ...

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 ...

Thanks for Every New Morning (1994)

This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and to buy something more better than is in Ukraine. As the times go by ...

Dlhý, Široký, Bystrozraký (1994)

When magic and malice combine to gain power, bad times can come to the land - and that's exactly what happened in the kingdom our story takes you to. An evil sorcerer decides to kidnap Princess Kvetusha, and out of his desire to control everything, he is a ...

Kmotor Remenár a kmotor Hrebenár (1993)

Trajja's tricksters like to have fun at other people's expense and they always manage to make some crown along the way. They are even so clever that they can outwit even bandits and deprive them of their treasure. However, they neglect their wives and so t ...

It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)

A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in N ...

Dúhová cesta (1991)

Boy's Vacation (1989)

A father/son get-together trying, in their inept way, to do some repair work to their home that they have out in the country. ...

Prstienky z kukučiny (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 ...

Hody (1988)

One of the annual gatherings of the Nádašskov family turns into a confrontation between different attitudes to life and generational views. The son-in-law tries to convince every member of the large family of the advantages of selling the old family home ...

Ghosts of the Dormers (1988)

A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors. ...

Pávie pierko (1987)

Version of the fairy tale "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"; unlike this one, the young charcoal-burner's son, who has been prophesied as the hard-hearted king's successor - which he is determined to prevent - has a begrudging foster brother. The kin ...

Dve balady (1986)

The Fountain for Suzanne (1986)

A story about the life and troubles of young people living in the city. The teenagers have to face real life, make their first major decisions, and learn that romance sometimes brings disappointment. ...

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 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 ...

Na druhom brehu sloboda (1984)

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

Múdry Maťko a blázni (1984)

Loktibrada (1984)

Neodchádzaj nocou letnou (1984)

Cesta na krvavé pole (1983)

Veľké preteky (1982)

Hlúpa rozprávka (1981)

Desiaty chlap (1981)

Dievča do dažďa (1981)

Ďuro-Truľo (1981)

Druhovia (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 ...

Najstarší zo všetkých vrabcov (1980)

Potopená katedrála (1980)

Nebezpečné známosti (1980)

The beautiful, bright and intelligent, but perfectly mischievous Marquise de Mertuil and her charming and equally depraved and ruthless friend, the master of seduction Vicomte de Valmont play a cynical game full of intrigue. The marquise is willing to devo ...

Steny (1980)

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. ...

Olejkár (1979)

Prievidzký mriežkovaný (1979)

Strašidlo (1978)

Biela stužka v tvojich vlasoch (1978)

Vládca Oidipus (1978)

Vietor v starých stromoch (1978)

Husliar a sirota (1978)

Ežo Vlkolinský (1978)

The TV dramatization of PO Hviezdoslav's epic tells of a time when the feudal system as a social force begins to disappear. Its only salvation is to merge with the people. Ežo is a supporter of this idea. ...

Zem nezasľúbená (1978)

Racha, My Love (1977)

Visiting Slovakian Racha to get antiquated with Slovakian wine-making techniques, Rachvelian from Georgia, Zauri, falls in love with Slovak Darina. Consequentially, when Darina visits Georgia, Zauri does his best to make her also love him. ...

Amok (1977)

Dobrý deň, stará mama (1977)

Krásna Pramíla (1977)

Čudný človek (1976)

Rozhodnutie (1976)

The film is based on the memoirs of partisan commander Peter Kružliak. Lieutenant Peter Kubiš is ordered to move with his unit to the mountains after the fall of Banská Bystrica, where he is to receive further orders. No one is waiting, on the contrary, ...

Serafínka a Cézar (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. ...

Nový systém (1974)

Do zbrane, kuruci (1974)

Návšteva (1973)

Žiarlivosť (1972)

Páni sa zabávajú (1972)

The story of a rural landowner and his struggle with "friends" who try to deprive him of his advantageous position and beautiful wife. ...

Divá kačka (1972)

Krútňava (1972)

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. ...

Kára (1970)

Maroško študuje (1970)

Výšiny (1968)

Líšky dobrú noc (1966)

Kubo (1965)

Charming country girl Anička Košáriková and the handsome Paľo share a tender, mutual affection, until Anička's recently widowed mother forbids the match. Paľo is the son of the former steward who once fell on hard times while serving the Košárik f ...

Ivanov (1964)

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 ...

Ivan (1960)

Smrť sa volá Engelchen (1960)

The television film based on the novel of the same name by Ladislav Mňaček draws on the period of World War II and the Slovak National Uprising. The film's story is composed of two intertwining time lines. In the images of the present that frame the enti ...

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 ...

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 ...

Náš školník (1959)

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 ...