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1) The Teacher
Series
Film Movement volume year 15, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Slovak
Formats
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...
2) Servants
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
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...
3) A Call Girl
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
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) The Giants
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2011.
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...
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