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Introductions to Slovak cinema
Slovak cinema
The development of cinema in Slovakia in the 20th century is tied to that of Czechoslovakia (see Czech republic, film in the), a nation formed in 1918 of which Slovakia formed a part until 1993. The earliest Slovakian film is usually considered to be Janosik, directed by Jaroslav Siakel and Frantisek Horlivy in 1921. From the 1930s, the studio system in Prague employed Czech and Slovak filmmakers and produced films for audiences across Czechoslovakia. In 1950, a Slovak film studio was completed at Koliba in Bratislava to produce films in Slovakian. Slovak filmmaker Stefan Uher’s Slnko v sieti/Sun in the Net (1962) is considered a key film of the emergent Czech New Wave, and a number of Slovak directors, including Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, and Peter Solan, were central in that movement. However, any distinction between the two national film industries was not clear at this point, and movement of personnel from one region to another was common.
After the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, the Koliba studios were subject to less strict oversight than those in Prague, and as a result most of the key films of the 1970s and 1980s, including work by Dušan Hanák, Martin Hollý, and Juraj Jakubisko, originated in Slovakia. Since independence, and despite government promises to protect and subsidize local film production, output fell to a trickle. Nevertheless, director Martin Šulík, whose lyrical films explore tension in father-son relationships, managed to make critically acclaimed films such as Záhrada/The Garden (1995). Although US films dominate, a state policy for funding, distributings, and promoting national production implemented in 2004 has been successful. Under the aegis of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund (established in 2009), this support has led to the production of around twenty films annually. Co-productions with the Czech Republic and other Eastern European countries such as Hungary offer a potentially viable business model, with the big-budget historical epic Bathory (Juraj Jakubisko) breaking box-office records in 2008. The work of filmmakers such as Juraj Nvota (Eštebák/Konfident/The Confidant, 2012) and Juraj Lehotsky (Nina, 2017)), as well as the commercial success of Čiara/The Line (Peter Bebjak, 2017) and Vsetko alebo nic/All or Nothing (Mariana Čengel Solčanská, 2017) signal the viability of the Slovak cinema. In 2018, a new organisational unit of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the Slovak Film Commission (SFC), was set up to promote Slovakia and its regions as a receptive location for runaway production. See Eastern Europe, film in.
Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Slovakia, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 Oct. 2024
Searching the online catalog
You can use the subject heading below to find resources in the online catalog. The call number range is also included.
- motion pictures slovakiaCall number range PN 1993.5 .C94 on Baker Level 4. Please note: this is not the only call number range, but it has the most items.
- motion pictures czechoslovakiaCall number range PN 1993.5 .C9 on Baker Level 4.
Selected book title(s)
Czech and Slovak cinema: theme and tradition by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780748620814This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period. It examines links between theme, genre, and visual style, and looks at the ways in which a range of styles and traditions has extended across different historical periods and political regimes. Czech and Slovak Cinema provides a unique study of areas of Central European film history that have not previously been examined in English.
Avant-garde to new wave: Czechoslovak cinema, surrealism and the sixties by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C9 O84 2011ISBN: 9780857451262The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. ...- Closely watched films: the Czechoslovak experience byCall Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C9 L48ISBN: 9780873320368This book collected interviews with leading Czechslovak filmmakers conducted mostly between 1967 and 1969. This was a period of immense upheaval beginning with the attack of the Czechoslovak establishment on the Union of Writers in 1967, continuing through the liberalisation of the Prague Spring in January 1968 and ended with the Soviet invasion in August and subsequent ‘Normalization’ process in April 1969. It records the testimony of several generations of filmmakers and their attempts to answer the questions about the purpose and meaning of film before and during this period.
- The Czechoslovak new wave byCall Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .C9 H2 1985ISBN: 9780520048591The Czechoslovak New Wave was originally published in 1985 and was quickly established as the world's leading authoritative English-language text. A study of the most significant movement in post-war Central and East European cinemas, it examines the origins of a movement against the political and cultural developments of the 1960s leading to the Prague Spring of 1968.
Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak cinema: Black Peters and the men of marble by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .M46 M344 2008ISBN: 9781845455408Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region's cinema that previously remained unknown, focusing on the relationship between representation of masculinity and nationality in the films of two and later three countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The objective of the book is to discuss the main types of men populating Polish, Czech and Slovak films: that of soldier, father, heterosexual and homosexual lover, against a rich political, social and cultural background. ...
Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)
Articles and other writings about Slovak films can be found in different publications. Our collection does not include any journals which look exclusively at Slovak films. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.
Film & television literature index by Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about Slovak national cinemas.
Screen studies collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
The web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Selected movie titles
Find more Slovak films in the online catalog.
Hana a jej bratia = Hannah and her brothers by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #2175Martin is a confused, young, lonely gay man in search of his own path in life. Slowly he is drawn to Hannah and her Brothers, a local cabaret where singer Hannah is a man with a secret, the same one that Martin shares.
In the box by Call Number: Streaming videoAn animated film about space. About a wooden puppet. About a box. And, about the quest for freedom.
Occupation 1968 by Call Number: Streaming videoAn anthology documentary consisting of five short films on the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, each by a different director from the five countries that participated in the occupation. In August 1968, five Warsaw Pact countries -- the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary -- invaded Czechoslovakia. ...
Protektor by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #19664ISBN: 9781461837435This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order to survive and protect his wife. Ironically, this choice threatens to destroy the very thing he's trying to protect: Hana.
Spalovač mrtvol = The cremator by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8392ISBN: 9780788608018Karl Kopfrkingl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs.
Učite̕lka = The teacher by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #21381ISBN: 9781501958649In 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.
Internet resource(s)
- Bratislava International Film FestivalEver since its inception, the Bratislava film festival strove to develop the identity of a young festival – an event whose mission is to discover new names of contemporary cinema that seem to be well on their way toward becoming future stars of the silver screen. ...
- Slovak films from Wikipedia
This is a chronological list of films that make up the Cinema of Slovakia. ...
