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...

Film study of Slovak folk sculpture, composed in ballad form.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

A documentary about lamentation songs of Bulgarian funeral rites.