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1) The Giants
Language
Slovak
Description
A moving coming-of-age film about small kids with enormous hearts. Brothers Seth and Zak are two young teens left to their own devices when their mother abandons them at their dead grandfather's house. As money grows thin during the long summer days, they befriend another loner, Danny who hooks them up with a small time drug dealer interested in renting their place. When that goes violently wrong, the ragged trio hits the road on a Huck Finn-style...
2) The Teacher
Language
Slovak
Description
Directed by Jan Hřebejk (Director of the **Oscar**-nominated *Divided We Fall*) and loosely inspired by true events, the film is a very dark comedy about an elementary school teacher who uses her students to manipulate their parents for her own gain. Winner of the Best Actress Award (Zuzana Mauréry) at the **Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Chicago International Film Festival.** *"An intelligent and universally...
3) A Call Girl
Language
Slovak
Description
Having grown up in small-town Slovenia, 23-year-old Alexandra embraces the excitement and anonymity of big city life when she moves to the capital. She styles herself as a call girl, planning to take advantage of everything the city has to offer. But her isolated existence - English studies and mortgage payments by day, call girl lifestyle by night - is shattered when one of her clients, a visiting politician, dies of a heart attack on her watch....
4) Servants
Language
Slovak
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects. Michal and Juraj, students of a theological seminary, must decide if they will collaborate with the government or becoming targets of the secret police.
5) A call girl
Series
Language
Slovak
Description
A Call girl: A 23-year-old Slovenia girl went to the capital from a small town. She worked as a call girl but when a politician, a caller died from his heart attack, the call girl confronted fear, guilt and desperation. Her small town became her refuge.
Honored: a unsent letter from her dead soldier husband in Iraq interrupted a young woman's isolation.
6) The teacher
Series
Film Movement volume year 15, film 12
Language
Slovak
Description
In 1983, students and parents at a suburban Bratislava middle school must decide whether to go against new teacher Miss Drazdechova, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party who is tying pupils' grades to how helpful their families can be with favors.
8) Servants
Series
Language
Slovak
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...
13) The confidant
Language
Slovak
Description
Adam, a young radio ham, is forced to save his girlfriend Eve from official harassment by signing a 'contract with the devil' becoming a secret police agent wiretapping people to obtain compromising materials to be used against them. However, he soon finds out that he is under surveillance as well. Combined with a dark secret from his military days, their life could be turned upside down at any moment.
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