Casts & Crew
Andrea Čunderlíková
Marián Bernát
Jiří Vondráček
Ján Kroner st.
Bohuslav Čanády
Ivan Romančík
Vladimír Malina
Ivan Folkman
Darina Chmúrová
Juraj Predmerský
Igor Čillík
Teodor Piovarči
Jozef Cút
František Gervai
Ľudovít Greššo
Tibor Bogdan
Also Directed by Štefan Uher
The Organ is a drama set in the times of the wartime Slovak State. A young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He gets into a conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values. The collision of talent and beauty with pettiness and closed-mindedness leads to envy and ill will, which draw young Felix away from his temporary hiding place and back to the dangers of war.
A girl is transformed into a maple tree by her impulsive and angry mother. Three poor wandering musicians come by the tree and create instruments from it. Walking around the country instead of happiness they bring death everywhere with their cursed instruments. However they cannot get rid of them, unless they bury the wooden instruments at the place of the tree. The three are anything but harmonious, each taking in their disputes various stances.
A classical ballad motif about an aging father and his three daughters is quite unusually here set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia of the 1950s. After having been expropriated, the former landowner Majda seeks refuge with his three daughters whom he had sent to a convent a long time ago. But only the youngest one is able to forgive him and she is willing to take care of him despite the threat of expulsion from the order.
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.
Slovakian villagers towards the end of WW II are despairing as German troops fall back to their village.