Martin Slivka Movies

A portrait of a Slovak farmer living in Kovacica in Vojvodina, who is known for his naive art work.

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Leaps, nicknamed...

The film shows the process of restoration of a Slovak Gothic wood-carving artwork of The Last Supper from Spisska Sobota, made by Master Paul of...

A film portrait about Professor Karol Plicka, focusing on his films, photography and folklore work.

A documentary about lamentation songs of Bulgarian funeral rites.

A film about Slovak icons painted in the period of the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, when original Byzantine icon was ending in Slovak folk...

A short film which documents early lumber and textile manufacturing processes.

Based on the short story of the same name by Dobroslav Chrobák, which deals with the return of Ondrej Baláž from the war after 17...

Documentary illustrating the classic principles of Byzantine iconography on the examples of sixteen icons from a museum of ancient Greek art.

Ethnographic documentary about customs and ceremonies connected with death in a Bulgarian village.

Martin Slivka's documentary film about Karol Plicka (1894-1987), the founder of Slovak cinematography.

A foray through the Sorbian customs of central Lusatia, made in the GDR. This classic work of documentary filmmaking covers the course of a year, in...

A film about folk plays. "A Play About St. Dorothea" performed by folk artists from Hriňová.