Slovak Cinema Review at Plus Camerimage 2008 is organized with The Slovak Institute in Warsaw and The Slovak Film Institute.




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Cinematographer: Viktor Svoboda
Director: Dusan Hanák
Running time: 95 min
Year: 1969

A former apparatchik reasons his involvement in clandestine activities during the Stalin administration have fated him to die from a dreaded disease. He searches for inner peace as he feels the guilt of his past transgressions.





I LOVE, YOU LOVE
Cinematographer: Jozef Ort-Šnep, Alojz Hanúsek
Director: Dusan Hanák
Running time: 95 min
Year: 1980

The tragicomic travails of luckless, lovelorn Pista, an old bachelor whose amorous adventures always come to naught. Pista seeks solace in drink, and in the company of his longtime friend Vinco, a handsome, devil-may-care womaniser.





PAPER HEADS
Cinematographer: Alojz Hanúsek
Director: Dusan Hanák
Running time: 96 min
Year: 1995

An ironical, savagely realistic, sometimes comic chronicle of the absurdities and atrocities practiced by the totalitarian regime in the Czechoslovakia of 1945 - 1989.





PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD
Cinematographer: Alojz Hanúsek, Martin Martincek
Director: Dusan Hanák
Running time: 70 min
Year: 1972

Suggestive portraits of old people from the Liptov and Orava regions who are able to enjoy their individual freedom even in the times of civilisational chaos and insecurity.





QUIET JOY
Cinematographer: Viktor Svoboda
Director: Dusan Hanák
Running time: 89 min
Year: 1985

A psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity and emotional barrenness of the men around her.







RETURN OF THE STORKS
Cinematographer: Miroslav Gábor
Director: Martin Repka
Running time: 100 min
Year: 2007

Vanda, a young flight attendant from Hamburg, feels a constant urge to fly, this even in her private life, where she often lacks firm ground under her feet. She flees to her grandmother’s village on the Slovak-Ukraine border to get back in touch with her roots.





ROSY DREAMS
Cinematographer: Jozef Šimončič
Director: Dusan Hanák
Running time: 81 min
Year: 1976

An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a Slovak postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka.






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