Videoteca

location_onBratislava. Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]publicXC

National Artist Professor Karol Plicka 1970
A film portrait about Professor Karol Plicka, focusing on his films, photography and folklore work.

Niet inej cesty 1968

Black Days 1968
A compilation of archival footage telling the events of August 1968 from a distinctly Slovak perspective. Opening with reportage of a meeting of the Warsaw Letter signatories in Bratislava in July 1968, the film portrays the Soviet invasion and people’s responses to the arrest of Alexander Dubček, the reformist Slovak First Secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party and principal architect of the Prague Spring.

Bulgarian Lamentation Songs 1968
A documentary about lamentation songs of Bulgarian funeral rites.

The Last Supper 1968
The film shows the process of restoration of a Slovak Gothic wood-carving artwork of The Last Supper from Spisska Sobota, made by Master Paul of Levoca.

The Man Leaves 1968 star_border 6.1
Ethnographic documentary about customs and ceremonies connected with death in a Bulgarian village.

Vrah zo záhrobia 1967

Piesok do očí 1967

Jeden deň pre starú paniu 1966

The Seventh Continent 1966 star_border 6.4
A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.

Smrť prichádza v daždi 1966 star_border 6.5

Nylon Moon 1966 star_border 7

Keeping a Distance 1966 star_border 6
Documentary illustrating the classic principles of Byzantine iconography on the examples of sixteen icons from a museum of ancient Greek art.

A Ballad in Wood 1966 star_border 5
Film study of Slovak folk sculpture, composed in ballad form.

The Bells Toll for the Barefooted 1965 star_border 6.4
A dramatic story from the end of WW II and a remarkable contemplation of the value of true friendship, meaning and purpose oflife or the possibility to be humane even in inhuma ne conditions. In a frosty mountain setting a cruel struggle for life takes place. After a fight, two partisans return to their brigade carrying along a young German soldier as a captive. But suddenly, amidst the hopelessness of barren mountains. all protagonists find themselves in a liminal existential situation.