Milan Kňažko

Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.

Behind the scenes of Eli Roth's horror sequel Hostel 2 (2007).

Social ballad. Three short stories – "Uzlík tepla", "Chlapec a pánboh" and "Rubári" – depict three different human...

A television adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the destructive power of wealth. Timon, a rich and generous Athenian citizen, gives gifts to...

The dramatic story captures the hard and dangerous life of the partisan group "Čapajev" led by Ľudovít Kukorelli during World War II. It...

1943. Captain Ian Nalepke, Chief of Staff of the Slovak regiment, bearing protection of military facilities in the small town of Belarus contacts the...

March 1945. It is already quite obvious to the Nazis that they cannot win the war. So it is time to think about the future after the war and to cover...

A classic story about the tragic, yet indestructible love of young Heloise for the heretical monk and medieval philosopher Abelard, who fought with...

The author attempted to analyze the disintegration of the Slovak Army before the outbreak of the SNP and showed how the conditions grew for the army...

Television adaptation of Roman Kaliský's play. Reconstruction of a trial with a journalist from the 1950s.

Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement,...

A play about the issue of family relationships, real and calculated partnership.

The life of the Ťapák family is joyless. Twelve of them live in one room, no one considers that it is possible to live differently. They have...

A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to...

In Belle Epoque Paris, Georges Duroy, a handsome, ambitious but penniless young man, reunites with his friend Forestier, editor-in-chief of a major...

A biographical film about the Slovak nationalist Ľudovít Štúr. It captures the revolutionary events of 1848 in Austria-Hungary,...

A television production of a Renaissance comedy by N. Machiavelli. A sharp criticism of society, a sharp satire on the wickedness of the clergy and...

The plot takes place in the revolutionary year of 1848. It takes us to Príbelice, where Janko Kráľ returns from Pest after the March...

A tragedy of great and bloody conflicts, turbulent emotions and clashes, centred on a couple torn by passion – Macbeth and his wife, who...

The television production is an episode from the life of Andrej Sládkovič. Braxatoris, known as Sládkovič, comes to Banská...

In the story of a partisan armored train crew operating in the rebel territory of Slovakia, the inner drama of Matúš Siroň, who hates...

In Slovakia, they often and gladly honored those soldiers who refused to serve the fascist regime and stood against it. Lieutenant Kukorelli also...

On the night it happened, Aleš Berka was celebrating his 50th birthday. A successful, mature man at the peak of his powers. Congratulations,...

A dramatic love story in the front line.

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

Three arias from Antonín Dvořák´s fairytale opera Rusalka turned in to a movie, sung by Gabriela Beňačková (Rusalka),...

Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to...

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.

As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely...

Inspired by Jaroslav Durych's novel of the same name. The story of an aging man—sick, exhausted, and twisted by life—who arrives in the...

The district town is reeling from the murder of a well-known local businesswoman. She was found dead one morning, dressed in a revealing costume in a...

A businessman unspools a web of espionage and corruption when his bid for a major construction project attracts the attention of an underground...

A small border town in the south of Slovakia is surprised by the sudden arrival of respected builder Mr. Hampl and his young wife Nada. She catches...

For an experienced police commissioner, solving a single murder would be routine, but the killer isn't satisfied with just one victim, and it's not...

František Cepl is a young man from a simple family. He graduated from a real school and was going to study technology. When the occupation...

Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince...

A crime case will affect the life of a famous actor.

The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls...

Young talented Elizabeth leaves a successful career in ballet for love. The man who has stolen her heart, however, has a dark side, and in a single...

A balladic story situated in a Slovak mountain region before the 2nd World War. A young man returns to his native village after many years. There he...

The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken refuge to get rid of his addiction. In the rehab,...

A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked side by side for years only as colleagues, but...

The drama of a young married couple unfolds during the socially and politically turbulent times of the young Czechoslovak Republic in 1919, when...

After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, everyone is packing their bags to leave the country. Martin Ivánek, who has just...

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...

At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era...

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician...

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument...

Woodcutter Ondra, who for his bold nature is called Nebojsa. He goes into the world to learn fear. During his journey, on which he is accompanied by...