Adam Matejka Movies

Because abortions required complicated approvals, an enterprising doctor secretly set up a sort of private practice where she offered this "service"...

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned...

The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Peter Jilemnický is a drama about the life of poor Kysuce miners, which takes place in...

This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro...

An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war...

A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.

The brave soldiers, including a young Romani man determined to become a machine driver after the war, are preparing to fight for the Dukla Pass, and...

A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The Gavora family of four leave their secure village...

In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague to lift the declining JZD he helped establish.

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the...

A dramatic tale of a man's life marked by two world wars. The story is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the life of the Dobrik...

An unconventionally seen story from the period of the Slovak National Uprising will especially interest you with the character of the village lad and...

Three friends, Emil, Vrabec and Mišo, spend every Sunday playing the lottery, each nursing a personal dream: Emil wants a Jawa 250 motorcycle,...

A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with...

Two repatriated soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after the First World War.

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

Little Vinco longs to play in the village brass band even though his teachers say he has no musical ear. After many problems at home with his parents...