Directing
Zoro Záhon
Born 1943-01-07
Zoro Zahon was born on January 7, 1943 in Piestany, Slovakia. He is an actor and director, known for The Assistant (1982), Tetované casom (1976) and Zaciatok sezóny (1988).
Acting credits
9.0Bratislava, 1930s. The owner of a luxury tailoring salon, Alfréd Blum, has always relied on a classy clientele, thanks to which he rose to the top of society. But times change, the world is in an economic crisis, and Blum discovers that in reality he only has debts. He has completely lost his assets in shares, and his clients have to deny themselves luxury goods. The only hope to save his family from poverty is Blum's life insurance policy for 300,000 crowns. Therefore, the businessman turns to his old acquaintance, unemployed tailor Ján Kepeš, with an unusual offer. He gives him five thousand crowns and arranges a job for him in a Viennese salon. The condition is that Kepeš kills Blum...
Smrť šitá na mieru
1980
7.0The dramatic story captures the hard and dangerous life of the partisan group "Čapajev" led by Ľudovít Kukorelli during World War II. It retrospectively presents the course of the Slovak National Uprising in eastern Slovakia.
Choď a nelúč sa
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Polojasno
1999
4.6This is the story of last years of Leo Tolstoy's life at his mansion in Yasnaya Polyana. He is surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who are coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. But in his sleepless nights he dreams about his happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. And everything ends with his tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
Lev Tolstoy
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Havária
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
Television production based on the short story by S. Zweig. The chess game played by two men is not only the central event, but also a metaphor for a story about human aggression, guilt and liberation.
Kráľovská hra
1999
8.0Štefan Padych loses a lawsuit against Šulgan, a local innkeeper to whom he owes money. Not wanting his wife and three-year-old daughter to starve, he decides to leave for France. However, after his departure, his wife Katarína Padych commits infidelity and becomes pregnant...
Hriech Kataríny Padychovej
1973
Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village.
Big Night and Big Day
1975
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
The original TV production of the fairy tale by M. Rázusová-Martáková.
Soľ nad zlato
1964
Behind the camera
10.0Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944.
Poéma o svedomí
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Tetované časom
1976
10.0A story of a family that after WWII moved to the south of Slovakia and acquired a prosperous butcher business left behind by a Hungarian emigrant. From the previous owner, the family also inherited a self-assured, greedy assistant who does not like to observe any firm moral principles. He assists the family in gaining wealth but in the long run, he causes the family's moral dissolution. In his most successful feature film, director Zoro Záhon combined a complex drama with excellent acting performances, especially that of Hungarian actor Gábor Koncz in the lead role.
The Assistant
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Akcia Edelstein
1986
