At the centre of Peter Patzak's existentialist film noir stands the hopeless struggle against the arms mafia in Czechoslovakia and its connections with Austria after the fall of the iron curtain.
The heroes of the story are animals and it takes place in the environment of a stunt farm. Victoria, a young and talented mare, is brought here just as the farm's existence is beginning to be threatened. She can only be saved by the outstanding performance of the animals at an audition for an...
The TV-obsessed burgomaster of a Polish town and his equally addicted wife are literally sucked into their set, vanishing from the living room. Their three bewildered children must band together to pull Mom and Dad back out of the television before they’re lost forever.
In a home proudly named Silverville, where natural death is a frequent, if unwelcome, guest, one morning one of the residents is found seriously injured. The director, who sweeps inconveniences and shortcuts in the functioning of the private facility under the carpet, does the same this time and...
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 turns off the building's heat and demands food,...
Dramatization of four classic one-act plays by J. G. Tajovský: "Hriech" (Sin, 1911), "Tma" (Darkness, 1912), "V službe" (In the Service, 1911) and "Matka" (Mother, 1906), which capture the image of social changes and changes in people's thinking prior to the First World War.
