film directed by Martin Hollý ml.

The countess celebrates her sixtieth birthday at the moment when she is about to leave her castle. The new workers' government wants to mercilessly destroy the nobility. But because Elizabeth Anna Marie, Countess of Lansdorf and Scheinberg, and later domestic worker Lansdorfová, realizes that "one must keep one's customs and promises, even if they are ridiculous and pointless," she wants to carry out a foolish plan to celebrate her 70th birthday at the family estate, despite the regime and her opponents in the city...

当普拉沃斯拉夫国王最喜欢的女儿告诉他，她爱他胜过爱盐时，他非常愤怒，因为他认为盐一文不值。 她的未婚夫盐王子让所有的盐消失，以教训普拉沃斯拉夫。

第一次世界大战的俄国前线。下士阿德尔伯特是个狂热的战士，执行上级命令不加思考，由于一直作战勇猛，他被将军授予了只有军官才能获得的青铜“军功勋章”

Seven people waiting for their death. A group of assasins - three men and two women - and Gypsy thief spend their time in prison to be tucked up. Within psychological realism, which encompassed the period’s predilection for existential mimicry, Martin Holly created an outstanding film, an adaptation of a story by the Russian author Leonid Andreev. Holly’s The Ballad of Seven Hanged Men (Balada o siedmich obesenych, 1968) reconstructed the fates of seven young anarchists sentenced to death for an attempted assassination. Shortly before their execution, the viewer sees seven different responses to the anxiety that each of the characters experiences. The characters, which are so very different, yet so convincing, change the viewer’s experience every second. These distinctive television movies were shot on film with the participation of several film directors (Martin Holly, Stanislav Barabas, Peter Solan, Juraj Herz, Jozef Zachar) and directors of photography (Stanislav Szomolanyi, Igor Luther, Dodo Simoncic, Vincent Rosinec). Characterised by inventive camera work and stylish musical scores, they include Balada o siedmich obesenych (‘The Ballad of Seven Hanged Men’) by Martin Holly, Sladke hry minuleho leta (‘Sweet Amusements of Last Summer’) by Juraj Herz, Krotka (‘The Meek One’) by Stanislav Barabas, Dama (The Dame), a narrative creative interpretation by Ivan Balada based on the literary work of Svantner, Hornak’s adaptation of Vincent Sikula’s S Rozarkou (‘With Rozarka’), Peter Solan’s Slavny pes (‘The Famous Dog’) based on the short story by Jan Weiss, and Tapak’s Zivy bic (‘The Living Scourge’) based on the novel by Milo Urban and others. Several of these films won prizes at international television festivals. Despite the official closure of Television Film Works in 1971, the dramaturgical and creative potential unleashed there later became the foundation for the development of dramatic television work and its creative culminations in the 1970s and 1980s. (<Slovak film New Wave>)

This movie is a part of the Slovak movies collection of 60´s and 80´s. It consists of 30 movies chosen by nowadays critics as the best artistic movies. This is No.1。

This movie is a part of the Slovak movies collection of 70´s and 80´s. It consists of 20 movies chosen by nowadays critics as the best artistic movies. This is No.2.

Shortly after the World War I and creation of the new Czechoslovak Republic, two war veterans are confronted in a small village in the north of Slovakia at the border with Poland. For one of the protagonists - Marek Orban (Michal Docolomansky), this village is his home. As it is isolated and lacks job opportunities, he persuades the inhabitants to emigrate to America. The villagers have to sell all the cattle to be able to buy the boat tickets, but it still is not enough. Marek Orban has to smuggle horses to Poland. The second protagonist - customs officer Halva (Radoslav Brzobohaty) arrives from Prague to protect the borders and the law of the new republic. Both men of honor and principle, they are led to conflict which results in a death of villagers and customs officers. The absurdity of this tragedy is underlined at the end of the film when the border is moved, the village becomes a part of Poland and in the background we can see Marek Orban smuggling horses from Poland to Poland.