Viera Topinková Movies

An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war...

Set in Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1938, about two children who play together and who are great friends. However their days of friendship are...

A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's...

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...

A comedy drawing on classical antiquity. In the play, the author mocks stupidity and arrogance, and also metes out just retribution.

Each of the four short stories, framed by the figure of the photographer, depicts the lives of women and girls whose work has brought them to the...

The freshly graduated engineer gradually sobers up from his student ideals and encounters a different reality than he had expected. Few people...

A contemporary story about the emotional maturation of fifteen-year-olds, their relationships with school and their future profession. A secret group...

A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. The five girls first try to...

Soňa, an emotionally unfulfilled nurse trapped in a monotonous marriage, decides to break away from her routine to escape her surroundings....

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....

Dramatization of four classic one-act plays by J. G. Tajovský: "Hriech" (Sin, 1911), "Tma" (Darkness, 1912), "V službe" (In the Service,...

A dramatic story from the environment of young actors, students of the Bratislava theatre school. Betka Šimanová, a young acting adept,...

Set in 1960s Bratislava, the film follows a cynical, thirty-year-old architect named Andrej who unexpectedly falls deeply in love with Vanda, a...

Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small...