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List Of Slovak Films
This is a chronological list of films that make up the Cinema of Slovakia. There may be an early overlap especially between Slovaks, Slovak and Hungary, Hungarian films when the two nations shared the Kingdom of Hungary#History, Kingdom of Hungary, later between Slovak and Czech films when the two nations shared Czechoslovakia#History, Czecho-Slovakia or Czechoslovakia. The list should attempt to document films that are either Slovak-produced or associated with Slovak culture. Please see the detailed A-Z of films currently covered on Wikipedia at :Slovak films, List of Czechoslovak films, and :Czech films. Before 1920 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s ''Minority co-production participation:'' 2000s *List of Slovak films of the 2000s 2010s *List of Slovak films of the 2010s 2020s *List of Slovak films of the 2020s External links Slovenská filmová databáza {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Slovak Films Lists of Slovak films, * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Slovakia
The cinema of Slovakia encompasses a range of themes and styles typical of European cinema. Yet there are a certain number of recurring themes that are visible in the majority of the important works. These include rural settings, folk traditions, and carnival. Even in the field of experimental film-making, there is frequently a celebration of nature and tradition, as for example in Dušan Hanák, Dušan Hanák's ''Pictures of the Old World'' (''Obrazy starého sveta'', 1972). The same applies to blockbusters like Juraj Jakubisko, Juraj Jakubisko's ''A Thousand-Year Old Bee'' (''Tisícročná včela,'' 1983). The percentage of comedies, adventures, musicals, sci-fi films and similar Film genre, genres has been low by comparison to Drama film, dramas and historical films that used to include a notable subset of Social commentary, social commentaries on events from the decade or two preceding the film. One of them, Ján Kadár, Ján Kadár's and Elmar Klos, Elmar Klos' ''The Shop on M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nosferatu
''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ( Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town. ''Nosferatu'' was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel '' Dracula''. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. Although these changes are often represented as a defense against copyright infringement, the original German intertitles acknowledged ''Dracula'' as the source. Film historian David Kalat states in his commentary track that since the film was "a low-budget film made by Germans for German audiences... setting it in Germany with German named characters makes the story more tangible and immediate for G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kriváň (peak)
Kriváň () is a mountain in the High Tatras, Slovakia, that dominates the upper part of the former Liptov County. Multiple surveys among nature lovers have ranked it as the country's most beautiful peak. Readily accessible along maintained marked trails and with the exceptional vistas afforded from its summit, it is the hikers' favorite mountain in the western part of the High Tatras. Kriváň has also been a major symbol in Slovak ethnic and national activism for the past two centuries. It has been referenced in works of art from 19th-century literature, through paintings, film documentaries, to a Polish rock track. A country-wide vote in 2005 selected it to be one of the images on Slovakia's euro coins. Name The name Kriváň, first recorded as ''Kriwan'' in 1639, is derived from the root ''kriv-'' meaning "bent" or "crooked". It reflects the angled appearance of its shape when viewed from the west and south, characterized in the work from 1639 as an "oxtail" (''cauda bubula' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ján Kadár
Ján Kadár (1 April 1918 – 1 June 1979) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian-born Slovak film writer and director of History of the Jews in Hungary, Jewish heritage. As a filmmaker, he worked in Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Canada. Most of his films were directed in tandem with Elmar Klos. The two became best known for their Academy Awards, Oscar-winning ''The Shop on Main Street'' (''Obchod na korze'', 1965). As a professor at FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague, Kadár trained most of the directors who spawned the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s. After moving to the United States, he became professor of film direction at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills. His personal life as well as his films encompassed and spanned a range of cultures: Jewish, Slovak people, Slovak, Hungarian, Czechs, Czech, and American. Early years Kadár was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Later his family moved to Rožňava, in the newly cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paľo Bielik
Paľo Bielik (December 11, 1910 – April 23, 1983), also known as Ján Bukva, was a Slovak film director, screenwriter and actor. He was one of notable personalities in the time of beginnings of Slovak cinematography. Life He was born in Banská Bystrica, then part of Austria-Hungary. At the start he played amateur theatre in Banská Bystrica. In the role of Jánošík eponymous game by Jiří Mahen, Karol Plicka noticed him and recommended for the title role in the film Jánošík (1936) to Martin Frič. It was the second film of the legendary story about the famous highwayman. The success of the film led Bielik to a professional theatrical career in the Slovak National Theatre. (1939 - 1941). During the war, he began to deal with short films and in 1945 he became a director of feature films. After his debut he starred in several other films of this important director (Hordubalové, Čapkove poviedky). During the filming of the movie directed by Frinč, which was first ever m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Frič
Martin Frič (29 March 1902 – 26 August 1968) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He had more than 100 directing credits between 1929 and 1968, including feature films, shorts and documentary films. Throughout his life, Frič struggled with alcoholism. On the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he attempted suicide, after battling cancer. He died in the hospital five days later. Filmography * '' Páter Vojtěch'' (1929) * '' Varhaník u sv. Víta'' (1929) * ''Vše pro lásku'' (1930) * '' Chudá holka'' (1930) * '' On a jeho sestra'' (1931) * '' Dobrý voják Švejk'' (1931) * '' Der Zinker'' (1931) * '' To neznáte Hadimršku'' (1931) * '' Sestra Angelika'' (1932) * ''Wehe, wenn er losgelassen'' (1932) * '' The Ringer'' (1932) * '' Anton Špelec, ostrostřelec'' (1932) * '' Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese'' (1932) * '' Život je pes'' (1933) * '' S vyloučením veřejnosti'' (1933) * ''Pobočník Jeho Výsosti'' (1933) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jánošík (1935 Film)
''Jánošík'' is a 1935 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Martin Frič. Cast * Paľo Bielik as Juraj Jánosík * Zlata Hajdúková as Anka * Andrej Bagar as Master Sándor * Theodor Pištěk as Count Andre Markusovský * Filip Davidik as Janicko, shepherd boy * Kudo Bachlet as A Janosik "Brigand" * Mirko Eliás as A Janosik "Brigand" * Martin Hollý as A Janosik "Brigand" * Jindřich Plachta as A Janosik "Brigand" * Jan W. Speerger as A Janosik "Brigand" * Ladislav H. Struna as A Janosik "Brigand" * Jan Sviták as A Janosik "Brigand" * Kudo Uhlar as A Janosik "Brigand" * Otto Zahrádka as A Janosik "Brigand" Reception Writing for ''The Spectator'' in 1936, Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ... gave the film a poor review. Noting that the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Plicka
Karel Plicka (in Slovak: Karol Plicka) (14 October 1894 6 May 1987) was a Czechoslovak photographer, film director, cinematographer, folklorist, and pedagogue. He is considered a founder of Slovak film education and filmmaking. He helped establish the genre of ethnographic film in Czechoslovakia. Biography Plicka was born to Czech parents in Vienna. Štoll (2009), p. 426 He spent his childhood in Vienna and in Česká Třebová (from 1900 to 1909). Following his graduation at the ''Teachers Institute'' in Hradec Králové (1909–1913), Plicka studied violin and music theory privately in Prague and Berlin. His early interest in music resulted in founding various choirs in Úpice and Nové Město nad Metují, and most importantly he co-founded the choir of the Czech Philharmonic, together with conductor Václav Talich and composer Jaroslav Křička. He was the artistic director of the choir from 1920 to 1924. During World War I, he was engaged as a singer in the Court Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vítězslav Novák
Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important example of Czech modernism. He worked towards a strong Czech identity in culture after the country became independent in 1918. His compositions include operas and orchestral works. Biography Early years Novák (baptized Viktor Novák) was born in Kamenice nad Lipou, a small town in Southern Bohemia. In 1872 the family moved to Počátky, where Novák first studied the violin with Antonín Šilhan and the piano with Marie Krejčová. After the death of his father in 1882, the family moved to Jindřichův Hradec, where Novák continued his studies at grammar school . An elementary school in the town is named after Novák today. In his late teens, he moved to Prague to study at the Prague Conservatory, changing his name to Vítězslav to iden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moravia
Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 1348 to 1918, an imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1004 to 1806, a crown land of the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867, and a part of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918. Moravia was one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia founded in 1918. In 1928 it was merged with Czech Silesia, and then dissolved in 1949 during the abolition of the land system following the communist coup d'état. Its area of 22,623.41 km2 is home to more than 3 million people. The people are historically named Moravians, a subgroup of Czechs, the other group being called Bohemians. Moravia also had been home of a large German-speaking populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trenčín
Trenčín (, also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech border, around from Bratislava. It has a population of more than 55,000, which makes it the eighth largest municipality of the country and is the seat of the Trenčín Region and the Trenčín District. It has a medieval castle, Trenčín Castle, on a rock above the city. Trenčín is chosen as the European Capital of Culture in 2026. Names and etymology Trenčín was first mentioned under the Greek name ''Leukaristos'' (Λευκάριστος), depicted on the Ptolemy world map around 150 CE. During the course of the Marcomannic Wars between the Roman Empire and Germanic Quadi, the Romans carved an inscription on the rock under the present-day castle in 179 CE and the place was mentioned as ''Laugaricio''. For a long time it was considered the northernmost known presence of the Romans in Central Europe. The first written mentions in the Middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strečno
Strečno ( hu, Sztrecsény) is a village and municipality in the Žilina District in the Žilina Region in North Slovakia. It is located by the Váh River in the Malá Fatra Mts. Situated 7 km east from Žilina, Strečno is most famous for its gothic castle ruins. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1300. The castle, built in the beginning 14th century by Matthew III Csák was destroyed in 1698. During World War II, participants of the Slovak National Uprising and German Army clashed in brutal battles in the gorges of Strečno. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of 360 metres and covers an area of 13.175 km2. It has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ... of about 2648 people. Gallery Image:Strečno34.jp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
