Movies: Pavol Topoľský

Even a strict and not very popular teacher can achieve extraordinary popularity with his pupils. When their favourite teacher breaks his leg just before a bicycle trip, he is replaced by his strict colleague. Although his involuntary charges are not ...

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 solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of w...

A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evi...

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

The fate of Ondrej Horniak, a young civil engineer, who after graduating starts working in a construction company as a deputy construction manager on a large construction site. Here he encounters all the ills of socialist construction - sloppiness, c...

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A nostalgic story about the birth of a movie star and a sad love. A Hollywood dream - the desire of thousands of girls to shine in the movie sky, but also hope and disappointment, the toll of success, the endless waiting for the right one to discover...

Tou former boxers meet in the ring again after years for a re-run of an old match. The old loser currently works as a factory executive and he is unwilling to reconcile with his old defeat. He challenges the old winner, whose job in a garage puts him...

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30-year-old Anna seeks a stable foundation in her relationships but unknowingly repeats the manipulative patterns learned from her mother. When she crosses paths with a terminally ill patient and his devoted wife, Anna experiences a profound love tha...

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The lacking attitude of a conscripted university graduate places him at odds with the power and doctrine of his military superiors. His secret relationship with the wife of a superior officer along with the low discipline of his fellow conscripts onl...

The Sultan awaits the arrival of his son, Prince Omar, who has brought up in a distant land. The master tailor and his assistances are making clothes for the prince. Labakan, the most gifted of his assistances, craves to be a Sovereign's heir so he s...

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