Pavol Barabáš

Directing

Pavol Barabáš

Born

1959-09-13 (67)

Place of birth

Trencin, Slovakia, EU

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Grand Canyon poster
NR

The Brahmaputra, Karnali, and Colorado Rivers are fascinating for many river runners. Particularly, the Colorado River stands out as a unique stage where whitewater rapids unravel Earth's ancient history. Within its wild water, it stirs up cherished memories of a dear friend, whose passion for discovering the mysteries of great rivers inspired many of us. The documentary film Grand Canyon captures adventures of Slovak paddlers dedicated to follow their dreams. Rafting down many rivers and crossing canyons worldwide, they face their biggest challenge now – to raft down the Colorado River. Years of preparation have led up to this defining moment. They face the month-long journey in the canyon, immersing themselves in the untamed beauty of nature.

Grand Canyon

2023

Vábenie výšok poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vábenie výšok

2017

Zajatci podzemia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zajatci podzemia

2012

High Tatras – Wilderness Frozen in Time poster
7.0

An old Slovak legend says: When God created the Earth, He distributed beauty to angels to spread it over the lands. The youngest of them wanted to shorten his way through the high mountains. However, he did not manage to take off higher with the burden. He tripped on one of the sharp shields and all his beauty was scattered across the surrounding valleys. The ancient Slavs gave the wild mountains full of game and superstition the name of the Tatras. Today we know that they are the smallest mountains in the world. Try to look carefully into their kingdom with us. Quietly look around and let your thoughts be carried away by the majesty of nature. You may touch the knowledge of how everything relates to everything in this world. And maybe you will understand your responsibility to preserve the wilderness, which should remain here for future generations as if frozen in time.

High Tatras – Wilderness Frozen in Time

2007

The Polarman poster
NR

He is well- known in the world, but unknown in his home country. Slovakian Peter Valusiak took part in more than 20 expeditions to the Polar Regions. In 1998, together with three Russian explorers, he completed the first unsupported crossing of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada over the North Pole. Another great challenge which has been on his mind for many years is to cross Antarctica over the South Pole. The Polarman is portrait of a man who tries to survive alone in the coldest continent.

The Polarman

2014

Amazonia Vertical poster
5.0

Amazonia vertical is a film that presents the power of nature and adventurous discovery of a lost world. Auyan Tepui... The highest table mountain in the Amazon... Indians believe that demons live on the top of it...Becko Ondrejovic managed the first complete traverse.

Amazonia Vertical

2006

Film credits

Behind the camera

Grand Canyon poster
NR

The Brahmaputra, Karnali, and Colorado Rivers are fascinating for many river runners. Particularly, the Colorado River stands out as a unique stage where whitewater rapids unravel Earth's ancient history. Within its wild water, it stirs up cherished memories of a dear friend, whose passion for discovering the mysteries of great rivers inspired many of us. The documentary film Grand Canyon captures adventures of Slovak paddlers dedicated to follow their dreams. Rafting down many rivers and crossing canyons worldwide, they face their biggest challenge now – to raft down the Colorado River. Years of preparation have led up to this defining moment. They face the month-long journey in the canyon, immersing themselves in the untamed beauty of nature.

Grand Canyon

2023

Vábenie výšok poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vábenie výšok

2017

Zajatci podzemia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zajatci podzemia

2012

Zajatci podzemia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zajatci podzemia

2012

High Tatras – Wilderness Frozen in Time poster
7.0

An old Slovak legend says: When God created the Earth, He distributed beauty to angels to spread it over the lands. The youngest of them wanted to shorten his way through the high mountains. However, he did not manage to take off higher with the burden. He tripped on one of the sharp shields and all his beauty was scattered across the surrounding valleys. The ancient Slavs gave the wild mountains full of game and superstition the name of the Tatras. Today we know that they are the smallest mountains in the world. Try to look carefully into their kingdom with us. Quietly look around and let your thoughts be carried away by the majesty of nature. You may touch the knowledge of how everything relates to everything in this world. And maybe you will understand your responsibility to preserve the wilderness, which should remain here for future generations as if frozen in time.

High Tatras – Wilderness Frozen in Time

2007

High Tatras – Wilderness Frozen in Time poster
7.0

An old Slovak legend says: When God created the Earth, He distributed beauty to angels to spread it over the lands. The youngest of them wanted to shorten his way through the high mountains. However, he did not manage to take off higher with the burden. He tripped on one of the sharp shields and all his beauty was scattered across the surrounding valleys. The ancient Slavs gave the wild mountains full of game and superstition the name of the Tatras. Today we know that they are the smallest mountains in the world. Try to look carefully into their kingdom with us. Quietly look around and let your thoughts be carried away by the majesty of nature. You may touch the knowledge of how everything relates to everything in this world. And maybe you will understand your responsibility to preserve the wilderness, which should remain here for future generations as if frozen in time.

High Tatras – Wilderness Frozen in Time

2007

The Polarman poster
NR

He is well- known in the world, but unknown in his home country. Slovakian Peter Valusiak took part in more than 20 expeditions to the Polar Regions. In 1998, together with three Russian explorers, he completed the first unsupported crossing of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada over the North Pole. Another great challenge which has been on his mind for many years is to cross Antarctica over the South Pole. The Polarman is portrait of a man who tries to survive alone in the coldest continent.

The Polarman

2014

Amazonia Vertical poster
5.0

Amazonia vertical is a film that presents the power of nature and adventurous discovery of a lost world. Auyan Tepui... The highest table mountain in the Amazon... Indians believe that demons live on the top of it...Becko Ondrejovic managed the first complete traverse.

Amazonia Vertical

2006

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Volanie prírody

2010

Carstensz – Siedma hora poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carstensz – Siedma hora

2008

Carstensz – Siedma hora poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carstensz – Siedma hora

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Súhra

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Súhra

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Záprah

2008

Svetozár Stračina poster
NR

The portrait of composer Svetozár Stračina pays tribute to an extraordinary creative force who has left behind a vast, significant musical legacy. He was an extraordinary artist who stands out from any “folder”. A boheme who perceived inherently and cultivated the authentic folklore. A composer whose creations inspire also those who avoid folklore. Stračina not only substantially contributed to the ethnomusicological repertoire, he helped create an enormous amount of legendary film music, whose originality stands up to the test of time.

Svetozár Stračina

2019

Mysterious Mamberamo poster
NR

Thanks to its inaccessibility, both natural and political, Irian Jaya is the only remaining place where civilized man can come into contact with the primitive world. Until now no expedition had managed the march from the centre of the country to the River Mamberamo, which hides its secrets from the white world.

Mysterious Mamberamo

2000

Mustang poster
NR

Mustang, a kingdom whose existence has long been kept secret, on the territoryof Nepal in the fabled land of Lo. It is hidden behind the high wall of the Himalayas, like a wedge driven into Tibet. The afternoon wind blows every day, tirelessly obliterating all trace of every caravan. In front of the royal palacemonks intone ancient Buddhist prayers over and over again. Time seems to have stopped in this medieval fortress. Electricity, roads and cars are unknown to these people and yet in some ways they are ahead of us. In their incredible knowledge of nature and in their way of life. The fortress of Lo Mantang, however, continues to guard its secrets

Mustang

2001

From Slovakia with Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

From Slovakia with Love

2016

From Slovakia with Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

From Slovakia with Love

2016

No artwork available
NR

The visual film Transformations of the Tatras tells about man's respect for nature and its ability to renew itself in all its complexity and beauty. And finally, about what we carry hidden in our subconscious - that all of us on this Earth are one whole, which is subject to precise natural laws. (distributor's official text)

Transformations of the Tatras

2006

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dotkolsomsa Doby kamennej

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dotkolsomsa Doby kamennej

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No artwork available
NR

After several hours of climbing the Javorinská Široka massif and endless tens of meters underground in a narrow crawl space, we found ourselves in a huge cave. We are accompanied by Igor Pap, who discovered it together with his friends in 2004. The Moon Shadow cave with its current dimensions is the largest cave in the High Tatras, but it is attacking several Slovak speleological records. Shadow Seekers is a story about Igor's intuition, motivation and determination to discover one of the most difficult to reach and most adventurous caves in Slovakia despite the obstacles. She is a probe into his caveman soul. The film contains authentic shots and situations that arose directly during the discovery of new spaces and the largest vertical shafts underground in Slovakia. (distributor's official text)

Searching for the Shade

2013

No artwork available
NR

After several hours of climbing the Javorinská Široka massif and endless tens of meters underground in a narrow crawl space, we found ourselves in a huge cave. We are accompanied by Igor Pap, who discovered it together with his friends in 2004. The Moon Shadow cave with its current dimensions is the largest cave in the High Tatras, but it is attacking several Slovak speleological records. Shadow Seekers is a story about Igor's intuition, motivation and determination to discover one of the most difficult to reach and most adventurous caves in Slovakia despite the obstacles. She is a probe into his caveman soul. The film contains authentic shots and situations that arose directly during the discovery of new spaces and the largest vertical shafts underground in Slovakia. (distributor's official text)

Searching for the Shade

2013

No artwork available
NR

A documentary nature film about little-known but all the more precious natural wonders of Slovakia.

Krásy Slovenska

2010

Spirit of Jaguar poster
5.0

Everyone needs their tribe.

Spirit of Jaguar

2018

Spirit of Jaguar poster
5.0

Everyone needs their tribe.

Spirit of Jaguar

2018

Suri poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Suri

2015

Suri poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Suri

2015

No artwork available
NR

Four Slovak and Russian explorers endure a 118-day trek to the North Pole, starting from the Russian archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya and ending in Canada a route that remained unconquered until this journey.

Arctic Extreme

2008

Buddhist Ladakh poster
NR

A documentary film about a country where Tibetan Buddhism has preserved its original culture. When steel birds begin to fly in the sky, when horses begin to ride on wheels, the time will come when Buddhism will begin to spread to the western countries," predicted in the eighth century the Tibetan saint and magician Padmasambhava. After many centuries of an impregnable and isolated land of monks living in countless monasteries, Ladakh has been made accessible by cars and airplanes. A unique cultural and religious heritage of the world has been revealed in the former kingdom, lying on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau guarded by the high ranges of the Himalayas and the Karakoram. its ancient traditions and knowledge of the hidden powers of the human soul and the highest knowledge are mortally threatened. It depends only on humanity whether these riches of the world will disappear forever or become the spiritual property of a future higher civilization. (distributor's official text)

Buddhist Ladakh

1996

Buddhist Ladakh poster
NR

A documentary film about a country where Tibetan Buddhism has preserved its original culture. When steel birds begin to fly in the sky, when horses begin to ride on wheels, the time will come when Buddhism will begin to spread to the western countries," predicted in the eighth century the Tibetan saint and magician Padmasambhava. After many centuries of an impregnable and isolated land of monks living in countless monasteries, Ladakh has been made accessible by cars and airplanes. A unique cultural and religious heritage of the world has been revealed in the former kingdom, lying on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau guarded by the high ranges of the Himalayas and the Karakoram. its ancient traditions and knowledge of the hidden powers of the human soul and the highest knowledge are mortally threatened. It depends only on humanity whether these riches of the world will disappear forever or become the spiritual property of a future higher civilization. (distributor's official text)

Buddhist Ladakh

1996

Polárnik poster
NR

It is a unique record of the crossing of Antarctica, which was made by Slovak polar explorer Peter Valušiak together with the director of the film. Peter Valušiak has completed some two dozen expeditions to the polar regions and is known as "the Slovak alien". He planned the expedition project over the highest peak of Mount Vinson (4897 m). The Slovak expedition consisted of Peter Valušiak, Róbert Kukučka, Patrik Tkáč and Pavol Barabáš. After a 200-kilometre march, they reached the South Pole. Valušiak continued the trek alone, with a load of 200 kg.

Polárnik

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Neznáma Antarktída

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Expedícia Sibír

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Expedícia Sibír

2001

No artwork available
NR

Dive with us into the mysterious underground of Slovakia. We will walk through unique sinter, charming aragonite or cool ice decorations, which offer us an unusual view of the secrets hidden in the depths of the earth. You will be enchanted by the diverse formations, corridors prepared by water, massive underground halls, narrow canyons with roaring waterfalls or crystal clear lakes. No wonder many of these caves have made it onto the World Heritage List. (distributor's official text)

The secret of the underground

2009

The Secret World's Seekers poster
NR

You have to go deep underground, along a winding path. You will crawl in the mud and in the cold, in your own sweat, which after a while will freeze on your skin. You will go from light to darkness to rediscover the light, the light in yourself... The first part of the three-part documentary series about exploring the underground in Slovakia will guide you through a tangle of incredibly narrow passages and at the same time a number of spacious underground halls of little-known caves. It introduces you to the admirable people to thank for discovering the underground riches beneath our feet. Rocky Stream, Štefanová, Eternal Robot, Cave of Dead Bats, Old Castle, Moon Shadow. (distributor's official text)

The Secret World's Seekers

2010

The Secret World's Seekers poster
NR

You have to go deep underground, along a winding path. You will crawl in the mud and in the cold, in your own sweat, which after a while will freeze on your skin. You will go from light to darkness to rediscover the light, the light in yourself... The first part of the three-part documentary series about exploring the underground in Slovakia will guide you through a tangle of incredibly narrow passages and at the same time a number of spacious underground halls of little-known caves. It introduces you to the admirable people to thank for discovering the underground riches beneath our feet. Rocky Stream, Štefanová, Eternal Robot, Cave of Dead Bats, Old Castle, Moon Shadow. (distributor's official text)

The Secret World's Seekers

2010

Everest - The Hard Way poster
10.0

A team of Slovak mountaineers attempt the ascent of the southwest face of Everest, dubbed "the hard way" by Mountaineer Chris Bonington.

Everest - The Hard Way

2021