Acting

Juraj Paška

Born 1921-10-09

Acting credits

Beware! poster
7.5

A drama about Slovaks who emigrated before WW I. It is focused on the life of Ondrej Muranica. He emigrates to America because of the hard life that is partly caused by Hungarian landowners. His dreams and hopes for a happier life are destroyed by a disaster in the mines where he works. Ondrej is declared missing.Years later he returns to his home country and finds out his wife married his best friend.

Beware!

1947

Jánošík poster
7.8

This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro Jánošík [1688-1713] and the social situation in Slovakia of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The first part talks about Jánošík's childhood, studies and return to his native village. In the second part Jánošík leaves for the hills, where he organizes his band of brigands and starts an anti-feudal resistance. The film concludes with Jánošík's execution.

Jánošík

1963

Poéma o svedomí poster
10.0

Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944.

Poéma o svedomí

1979

Salt & Gold poster
6.0

A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruška, fails her father's expectations about proving how deep her love him is. He misunderstands her and she is made to leave the castle. She faces many dangers on the way to her loved one, the Salt Prince.

Salt & Gold

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Meridián

1976

Wolves' Lairs poster
6.6

This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants.

Wolves' Lairs

1948

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pred súdom

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Španielska gitara

1976

No artwork available
6.3

A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.

White Darkness

1948

No artwork available
8.0

A group of drivers paid according to their performance are struggling with hard work in a large quarry, somewhere where foxes say good night. A new worker, Marek Orban, joins the team of foreman Peter Hotka, known as Maco. Deep down, he is a deeply moral person, although he was given a suspended sentence for bodily harm. He beat up his wife's lover, to whom he must also pay compensation. Marek hides this from the other members of the group because he is ashamed. Maco, out of friendship with Marko, attributes non-existent trucks to the group, which, of course, backfires. However, the team eventually shows its strength and works off the undeserved reward.

Dosť dobrí chlapi

1972

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kazko Vlasko

1978

Dynamit poster
NR

The drama of a man driven to crime by the mechanism of violence in an American prison. It is an indictment of American justice and the barbarically cruel methods of prison staff. Based on Jack London's novel "The Star Rover".

Dynamit

1973

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kráľ sa zabáva

1971

The Devil Does Not Sleep poster
5.4

Episodic film consisting of three satirical shorts ('Smutný káder', 'Typický prípad' and 'Vel'korysá kampaň') comically exposing the shortcomings of society. In the interval between each short, a committee recognising themselves in the characters on screen, voice their approval or disapproval of each film.

The Devil Does Not Sleep

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marína Havranová

1964

Niet inej cesty poster
7.0

A 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

Priehrada poster
5.0

The construction of a large dam in Slovakia is hindered by the influence of small farmers on the landowner Bujna, on whom they depend for help with the harvest and for monetary loans.

Priehrada

1950

Štyridsaťštyri poster
6.0

Drama about the rebellion of the Trencín Infantry Regiment against its superior officers in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, at the end of the First World War. It was the biggest and deadliest rebellion in the Austro-Hungarian army.

Štyridsaťštyri

1958

No artwork available
NR

The plot takes place in the revolutionary year of 1848. It takes us to Príbelice, where Janko Kráľ returns from Pest after the March Revolution, to acquaint the Slovak people with the famous Twelve Points, together with his friend, teacher Ján Rotarides. They were voted on at the last Hungarian Diet in Bratislava with the promise of freedom and equality for Slovaks.

Príbelská vzbura Janka Kráľa

1978

No artwork available
8.5

The poverty of Slovak workers during the Great Depression during the Masaryk Republic reached such a level that it led to a well-organized strike. The capitalists and their minions tried by all means to break it. Even the workers who had not yet been elected soon recognized their place and supported the initiative of the communists, who selflessly led the strike movement. The poster-like, purely ideological story succumbs to paper-like dialogues and plots, and the narrative portrayal hardly convinces of the credibility of the whole story.

Nie

1978

No artwork available
8.0

The myth of the anti-fascist resistance in Slovakia was one of the important themes of normalization cinema, of course, treated with an emphasis on the leading role of the communists. This primitively illustrative film depicts the heroic enthusiasm shown by the members of the resistance group, heroically and with constant commitment of life fighting against the treacherous police of the Slovak state and ultimately against the German Gestapo.

Do posledného dychu

1976

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lož má krátke vlny

1949

Výhybka poster
NR

A story of two old friends, who after ten years - one as the deputy director and the other as the chairman of the party organization - meet on a large construction site.

Výhybka

1963

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Čenkovej deti

1975