



Nevera po slovensky I-II (1981)
Directed by
Juraj Jakubisko
Runtime: 143 min
Country: Czechoslovakia
Color: Color
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170987/
Plot Outline: A comedy about three flirtatious woodcutters realistically capturing Slovak village life and criticizing insincerity, hypocrisy and male pride.
Tisícrocná vcela (1983)
Also Known As:
A Thousand-year-old Bee
The Bee Millenium
Runtime: 162 min
Country: Czechoslovakia / West Germany / Austria
Language: Slovak / Czech
Color: Color
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086447/
Sedím na konári a je mi dobre (1989)
Also Known As:
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself
Runtime: 110 min
Country: Czechoslovakia / West Germany
Language: Slovak / Czech
Color: Color
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098280/
Rich, moving depiction of survival in the sea of history
Twenty years after Birds, Orphans & Madmen, Jakubisko essentially reworked the same material into a wonderful narrative about ordinary people surviving within the sea of Eastern European history. But here the gratuitous ugliness of the earlier film is replaced by a fable-like wonder and deep affection for the characters. Two men fight to make a life for themselves -- and eventually for the damaged woman they come to love -- as the devastation of WWII is replaced by the oppression of communism. The mix of humour, romance and tragedy is reminiscent of Kusturica.
Nejasná zpráva o konci sveta (1997)
Also Known As:
An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (USA)
Runtime: 154 min
Country: Czech Republic / Slovakia
Language: Czech
Subs: English
Color: Color
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119771/
Tagline: A film about the world not being round and love always being sinful, or about the wolves inside us.
This is a very bizarre fairy tale. It commences with a wedding and singing and dancing but nearly the whole village is wiped out by wolves. The bride gives birth to a daughter several months later and promises her to the boy who saved her.
Ten years later there is another disruption when Some circus folk come by and the villagers trick them into staying. Tragedy ensues...
This has a strange cast, dwarfs, giants, priests and occasional intrusions from the modern world in the form of the police and a wonderer who returns bringing to the village the good news of Nostradamus. It is a long film but it honestly does not drag. and if you get bored of the plot you can always look at the sumptuous Countryside.