
Acting
Ivan Rajniak
Born — Died
1931-07-10 — 1999-02-23
Place of birth
Hybe, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]
Known for
Acting
Credits
86 titles
Ivan Rajniak was born on July 10, 1931 in the picturesque Liptov village of Hybe. Another important Slovak actor - Ondrej Jariabek - was born here for interest. Already at the age of 11, Rajniak appeared in the film LETO POD KRIVÁŇOM. The screenplay for this film was written by his native (Jariabek). Ivan Rajniak was terribly drawn to Bratislava, where he began studying at the Academy of Performing Arts. He graduated from this school in 1957. Košice became the first work of Ivan Rajniak. He was in the State Theater until 1966. It is interesting that he created the characters that are the basis of world theater (HAMLET, RÓMEO). In 1966 he joined the SND in Bratislava. He worked here for 33 …
Known for
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Bakaláři
1972
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Vivat Beňovský!
1975
8.0Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak Television Bratislava, directed by Slovak director Miroslav Luther in the first half of 80's in Barrandov Studios in Prague. The story and screenplay of the series wrote Czech writer Vladimír Körner. Five-episodes epic historical narration is a biographical story of distinguished Renaissance scholar, anatomist and politic of Slovak origin, Johannes Jessenius (Ján Jesenský, 1566–1621). It displays his life from the first studies and successes. In 1594 he became professor of surgery and anatomy on Wittenberg University, which he had attended years before. From that moment, his life went through social and personal wins and losses, to the sad end on the Prague Old Town Square gallows, among 27 noblemen, knights and burgenses, after lose Bohemian Revolt in 1621. His destiny was coupled with key events of Czech history in the break of 16th and 17th century, when Renaissance and European humanism slowly fade out.
The Physician of a Dying Time
1984
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Povstalecká história
1984
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Svadba bez nevesty
1980
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To je váš prípad, Šetaffy.
1986
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 17 titles
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Holič Britva a duch Vydriduch
1988
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Moliére
1986
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Ráno ako pes
1989
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Dnes platí regulačný stupeň č. 6
1980
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Návrat Jána Petru
1986
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Jennie Gerhardtová
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 devote one night full of passion to the viscount. However, on the condition that the viscount first deflowers the innocent Cecile de Volanges, who is to marry her former lover. In the end, they themselves become victims of their own dangerous game.
Nebezpečné známosti
1980
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Posledná hodina
1988
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Aký požičaj – taký vráť
1980
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Falošný peniaz
1980
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Hodiny
1981
The story of a young, university-qualified agronomist Tomáš Rajecký and his humanly complicated opponent, Viliam Kubica, who has been tempered and hardened by years of practice and is the chief agronomist of the unified farmers' cooperative in Machov, shows how their - initially almost generational - struggle gradually turns into productive cooperation in the interest of achieving a common goal after many minor and major clashes and conflicts.
Dozrievanie
1982
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Dulcinea z Tobosa
1986
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Predsunutý
1985
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Hrdina západu
1989
A psychological film depicting the professional beginnings of a young architect. As the head of a design studio, his uncompromising attitude arouses hostility and hatred from colleagues and subordinates accustomed to an easy life through patronage and bribery.
Zbohom, sladké driemoty
1984
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Drahý strýčko
1984
1970s · 29 titles
6.2A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test.
The Copper Tower
1970
6.4Jakub, 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 communities.
Rose Tinted Dreams
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Šuster, drž sa kopyta!
1974
7.4A 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.
Pacho, the Brigand of Hybe
1976
8.0A wandering magician, capable of listening to the secrets of a child's soul, is able to create a magical land called San Jago di Campanella even in a secluded mountain hunting lodge. He arrives there just before Christmas and is able to give the children there a sense of well-being full of soothing fantasy.
Putovanie do San Jaga
1973
9.0An original television film about a city who goes to the village for vacations and finds real friends there.
Vacations at Grandma's
1977
A television film, an adaptation of Vladimír Mináč's first novel. The dramatic story of two brothers during the Slovak National Uprising provides artistic testimony to authentic events from the Slovak mountains in 1944.
Smrť chodí po horách
1979
10.0In the story of a partisan armored train crew operating in the rebel territory of Slovakia, the inner drama of Matúš Siroň, who hates war with a passion, unfolds. After managing to escape from the Eastern Front, he falls into German captivity. When he is liberated by partisans during a train transport, he initially refuses to fight. However, the circumstances of the Slovak National Uprising force him to change his mind...
Deň, ktorý neumrie
1974
NRThe dramatization of P. O. Hviezdoslav's epic is a celebration of the moral purity of the Slovak people. Through the trial of gamekeeper Michal Čajka, who is on trial for the murder of young Mr. Artuš, we follow in retrospect the events leading up to the trial.
Hajniks Wife
1971
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V tieni šedivých lúk
1974
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Pustý dvor
1979
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Ďaleko je do neba
1973
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Piková dáma
1974
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Trofej neznámeho strelca
1974
10.01943. Captain Ian Nalepke, Chief of Staff of the Slovak regiment, bearing protection of military facilities in the small town of Belarus contacts the partisansand passes to them the obtained information about upcoming operations of the German forces.
Tomorrow Will Be Too Late
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Klinko a Kompit kráľ
1971
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Serenáda pre Martinu
1976
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Žiarlivosť
1972
6.0The film captures the new events in the lives of the main characters of the film "The Copper Tower". After two years spent in prison because of smuggling they return to the Stratená dolina valley and plan a revenge on police lieutenant Pardek.
Eagle Feather
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Andersonvillský proces
1976
10.0A film based on short stories by K. Przerwu-Tetmajer's Grey Eyes and M. Urban's Melted Heart. The heroines of both stories are young women with the same name - Kristka. They fight for their love, they both love with humility and surrender, but when necessary, they can be decisive and uncompromising. One is cruel in her love, the other fights for it with touching tenderness and kindness. These are not idyllic loves; they are full of life, full of raging blood...
Krutá ľúbosť
1978
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Poslední parlamentári
1977
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Zbojnícky tanec
1978
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Návšteva
1973
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Horúci dych
1978
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Kráľ sa zabáva
1971
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Ex libris
1975
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Sonatína pre páva
1979
NRTelevision adaptation of Štefan Králik's play. A psychological drama from the interwar period, it depicts the story of a village married couple who live together for seven years, but the desired child does not come. Into this situation comes the husband's younger brother, a world traveler who wants half of the property. He threatens the woman that he will reveal to her the lapse from her youth, because of which she cannot have a child. A husband finds a dropped child. He decides to take him in and raise him, and after his brother's departure, to live in understanding with his wife again, despite the disappointment she has prepared for him.
Trasovisko
1974
1960s · 13 titles
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Pokorené rieky
1962
5.4A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.
Miraculous Virgin
1967
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„Od štvrtka do zmŕtvychvstania...“
1969
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Česť
1966
9.0The unhappy and desperate director of the Šúpala Zoo tries to sell a sick bear to a foreign tourist for shooting, because the purchase of other animals for the ZOO is only possible with anti-socialist currency, i.e. hard currency, and so the administrator does everything possible and impossible just to get them...
Tango pre medveďa
1967
7.0A 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.
The Bells Toll for the Barefooted
1965
10.0Ostrava - Kunčice , 1953: on the same day as the manifestation funeral for J. V. Stalin, the funeral of Brigadier Bédi Nevěřil, a tragic victim of the bureaucratic cadre machine... The story unfolds in the memoirs of another brigadier, former journalist Karel Kratochvil.
Úplně vyřízený chlap
1965
NRMagdaléna, pure-hearted and guided by emotion, attracts Zápotočný, a callous egoist and abuser. Their turbulent relationship, set against a backdrop of social hardship, forces Magdaléna to confront the limits of compassion and the price of innocence when faced with brutal selfishness.
Three Chestnut Horses
1966
7.0A biographical film about the Slovak nationalist Ľudovít Štúr. It captures the revolutionary events of 1848 in Austria-Hungary, when Štúr, as a member of the Diet, led the fight for the national rights of the Slovak people.
Niet inej cesty
1968
9.0When the young heroine joins a large factory, she has difficulty adapting to the local environment and experiences a series of conflicts before finally joining the work team. This is an exemplary illustration of the thesis that only work truly humanizes a person and helps them find spiritual balance.
Most na tú stranu
1962
The film presents a parade of customs, music, songs and dances of the Slovak people in four seasons, based on a theatre play by I. Teren and K.L. Zachar from the first years after the liberation.
Rok na dedine
1968
NRA TV film from a mining environment shows the tragic outcome of hatred between brothers. The mother, a simple woman, has an uncanny ability to foresee events ahead. All her life she passively accepts her fate. Despite knowing what awaits her loved ones and her, she does not confront it. It is only when she sees the tragic conflict between her sons that she decides to prevent it.
Mother
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Rázcestie
1967
Series credits
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Bakaláři
1972
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Vivat Beňovský!
1975
8.0Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak Television Bratislava, directed by Slovak director Miroslav Luther in the first half of 80's in Barrandov Studios in Prague. The story and screenplay of the series wrote Czech writer Vladimír Körner. Five-episodes epic historical narration is a biographical story of distinguished Renaissance scholar, anatomist and politic of Slovak origin, Johannes Jessenius (Ján Jesenský, 1566–1621). It displays his life from the first studies and successes. In 1594 he became professor of surgery and anatomy on Wittenberg University, which he had attended years before. From that moment, his life went through social and personal wins and losses, to the sad end on the Prague Old Town Square gallows, among 27 noblemen, knights and burgenses, after lose Bohemian Revolt in 1621. His destiny was coupled with key events of Czech history in the break of 16th and 17th century, when Renaissance and European humanism slowly fade out.
The Physician of a Dying Time
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Povstalecká história
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Svadba bez nevesty
1980
No synopsis available yet.
To je váš prípad, Šetaffy.
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Na baňu klopajú
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Červený muškát
1977
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Reťazenie
1984
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Barbora Rösselová
1979
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Sesternica Beta
1978
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Ľudia z kanálovej štvrte
1975
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Kamarátka pre nás dvoch
1975
NRAn epic saga of the Habdza family of vineyard keepers set in western Slovakian countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. Director Andrej Lettrich's novel adaptation talks of plotting, forbidden love. family discord, and struggle for heritage and power. The story is engaging thanks to the impressive performances of popular actors, dramatic situations, and sensitive music. Red Wine is not so much inventive in terms of auteurship as it is a work of excellent craftsmanship. The resulting picture is a costume production neatly adapted to the character of Slovak rural life in the past.
Red Wine
1972
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Generácia
1969
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Tridsaťdeväť stupňov v tieni
1976
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V tieni vlkov
1972
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Jedenáste prikázanie
1977
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Vzbúrené mesto
1984
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Drotárskym chodníkom
1983
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Louis Pasteur
1979
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Mŕtve duše
1971
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Buddenbrookovci
1975
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Tu musíš žiť
1985
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Nech žije deduško
1978
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Kronika
1974
