Ady Hajdu

Acting

Ady Hajdu

Born 1963-08-05 · Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]

Vladimír Hajdu, known as Ady Hajdu (* August 5, 1963, Bratislava) is a Slovak actor. In 1987 he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In the years 1987-1990 actor of the Theater for Children and Youth in Trnava and since 1990 a member of the Astorka Theater - Korzo 90.

Acting credits

A Prominent Patient poster
6.2

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.

A Prominent Patient

2017

Broken Promise poster
6.1

Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.

Broken Promise

2009

Two Syllables Behind poster
6.5

Zuzana is an attractive and likable art student who works alongside her studies because she would like to start a life of her own. Like many young people, she is trying to find what would fulfill her, what she would like to do, find out who she would like to live with. She runs away from one lover in Bratislava to another in Paris, she is at work when she should be at school, she sleeps when she should be at home, she travels the world. She simply often feels two syllables behind. And not just literally when working in dubbing, but figuratively in his own life.

Two Syllables Behind

2005

Half Breakdown poster
2.7

A contemporary tragicomedy from a modern city about disintegration of relationship, disintegration of a marriage, and maybe also about the disappearance of basic rules from decent life. A very black comedy about people in their 40ies who already have money, but still listen to rock and roll, exchanging drugs for mobile phones.

Half Breakdown

2007

Stand-Up poster
NR

Mišo has a lifelong dream - to become a successful stand-up comedian. He quits his job to finally start fulfilling this dream. However, he is surprised by his niece Júlia, who arrives unannounced from the USA. Together, they embark on a stand-up tour of Slovak cities, where their dreams meet reality.

Stand-Up

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jacobowsky a plukovník

1992

Money or Love poster
5.7

A car thief driven by a love of cash finds his priorities shift when he falls for a college student but his conversion has dangerous consequences.

Money or Love

2011

Cruel Joys poster
6.4

This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with passion, and repressed and hidden emotion. It delves into the search for identity, investigating both love and hatred, while dramatizing the tragic relationship between an adolescent girl (Tatiana Pauhofová) and her ambitious father (Ondrej Vetchý). Set against the striking though simple backdrop of a picturesque, even idyllic, landscape - one ostensibly cut off from any important historical, political, or social context whatsoever - the arrival of an unwanted individual evokes the onset of a cruel drama.

Cruel Joys

2002

Jak si nevzít princeznu poster
7.1

A Christmas comedy-fairy tale in which Prince Leopold and Princess Josephine defy fate by vowing never to marry. When a time-travel adventure to the future goes awry, they must fight for their lives and their kingdom, only to discover, as in all fairy tales, that destiny has other plans.

Jak si nevzít princeznu

2021

No artwork available
2.0

The tragicomedy of a man who, by inappropriately attending the wedding of his subordinate, wants to demonstrate humanistic thinking in a society that is not ripe for such ideas. However, it turns out that even for him humanism is just a declared empty concept, serving to gain popularity. His whole democratization "mission" results in a farce, for which, out of offended vanity, he takes merciless revenge on his subordinates and on the whole environment...

Zlý žart

1993

The Magic Stone poster
2.5

In one fairytale land, people lived contentedly for many years, they had their usual joys and worries, they enjoyed the surrounding nature, the majestic forest. In addition to wild animals, birds and butterflies, fairies, goblins, dwarves and other magical and more or less charming creatures, invisible to the human eye, lived here. The rulers of the forest gave the strigóns Bendegúz and Sebela a magical stone that had the power to fulfill human wishes. The Strigôn made a bet whether people would abuse the power of the magic stone or use it for good deeds. Accompanied by the butler Vendelín and sister Júlia, the young count Henrich arrives at the estate, whose task is to improve the property and learn how to farm. Henrich, who has huge debts and a lot of negative character traits, has a different intention. He decides to cut down the forest. However, not only the inhabitants of the forest stand in his way, but also the miller Matúš and his sister, Countess Júlia.

The Magic Stone

2019

Amnesty poster
5.8

Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23000 prisoners. In addition to the story of three families affected by communist persecution, the film Amnesty also deals with the uprising of prisoners in Leopoldov, which required military intervention. The uprising was preceded by a broad amnesty granted by Václav Havel in January 1990, just a few days after his election as Czechoslovak president.

Amnesty

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mercadet

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Štvrtá hlava draka

1985

Music poster
8.3

In 1980s CSSR, depressed Martin tries to overcome the feeling of being locked up with jazz music.

Music

2008

Smolu nosíš ty, láska poster
4.3

Monika, a woman in her fifties, feels that she has reached all the important milestones in her life. Her child is grown up and she is very successful in her career as a workaholic. However, she has less and less in common with her husband, and her thoughts are increasingly returning to her youth, when she was not afraid to go off the beaten track and could appreciate the beauty of the moment. Monika decides to discover her adventurous self and enrols in a climbing course organised by Igor. He is the absolute opposite of Monika - a spontaneous and chaotic fool, a lifelong adventurer with no self-reflection and no sense of responsibility, who is mired in problems caused by his carefree lifestyle.

Smolu nosíš ty, láska

2023

Playboy's After Dark: Lusty Liaisons 1 poster
NR

Series of erotic stories, inspired by La Fontaine's and Boccaccio's work.

Playboy's After Dark: Lusty Liaisons 1

1994

No artwork available
NR

A TV adaptation of a historical comedy from Dürrenmatt's early period, depicting in an ironic manner the final moments of the Roman Empire, which its emperor Romulus Augustus decides to destroy and lay at the feet of the conquering Germanic tribes.

Romulus Veľký

1992

Playboy's After Dark: Lusty Liaisons II poster
NR

Series of erotic stories, inspired by La Fontaine's and Boccaccio's work.

Playboy's After Dark: Lusty Liaisons II

1994

This Room Is Impossible to Eat poster
NR

Tereza, a teenager, is incredibly bold, especially in art lessons. Whilst the rest of the class is creating their artwork, she defiantly hands in a blank sheet of paper, claiming she has depicted a wall. She knows she can get away with more.

This Room Is Impossible to Eat

2026

Toman poster
5.9

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.

Toman

2018

No artwork available
NR

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

Slepý Geronimo a jeho brat

1993

Once  Upon a Time  In  East poster
6.3

A solitary police operative skilfully moves on the edge of the law in the wild atmosphere of the East Slovak underworld in the early 1990s.

Once Upon a Time In East

2024

Nevěrné hry poster
6.0

The film tells the story of Eva, a pianist who followed her husband, musician and composer Peter, to a small village on the Slovak-Hungarian border. While Peter enjoys the peace and quiet of composing in the local environment, Eva searches in vain for a career as a performer, feeling disconnected not only from her family but also from her familiar Prague surroundings and friends. Unfaithful Plays is an intimate love drama about love, infidelity, human failures and finding oneself.

Nevěrné hry

2003