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| Current film info. Ingrid Veninger, actress and indie film director, took her crew from Toronto to her mother's birth place Modra, Slovakia, to shoot, in English, the story of a Canadian teenager on a visit to her grandparents' family with a casual friend from school. Against the backdrop of the picturesque wine-growing town and the Little Carpathians, their relationship becomes edgy while their relatives take them to be lovers and entertain them with family reminiscences, folk songs, tavern visits, a palacinky cooking lesson, and more. The director populated the story-based film with her daughter, Hallie Switzer, in the leading role and her relatives as themselves to amalgamate the feature-length theatrical release (80 min.) shown at several international festivals with facets of a high-end home movie reflecting her own roots and parents' country of origin. — Click here for the trailer. |
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| Slovak literature in English — Click here. | |
| Slovak filmmaking: clips and summaries — Click here. | |
| Slovak film history — Martin Votruba, "Historical and National Background of Slovak Filmmaking." Click here. From: M. V., ed. KinoKultura, Special Issue 3: Slovak Cinema. ISSN 478-6567 |
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| Slovak films in Hillman Library — By decade: click here. By director: click here. The University of Pittsurgh has the largest Slovak film collection outside of Central Europe. |
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| Slovak film — Martin Votruba, ed. KinoKultura, Special Issue 3: Slovak Cinema. ISSN 478-6567 Click here. |
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| Early images of the Holocaust in Slovak and Czech cinema — Martin Votruba, "The Shop on Main Street: The Holocaust in Context." Click here. | |
| Minorities in Slovakia — Martin Votruba, "Linguistic Minorities in Slovakia." Click here. From: C. Bratt Paulston, ed. Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. ISBN 18-535-9416-4. |
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| Slovak language status and laws — Click here. | |
| Literature, history, Jánošík — Martin Votruba, "Hang Him High: The Elevation of Jánošík to an Ethnic Icon." Click here. From: Slavic Review 65. |  |
| Highway robbery, history, Jánošík — Martin Votruba, "Highwayman’s Life: Extant Documents about Jánošík." Click here. From: Slovakia 39#72-73. |  |
| Slovak politics — Ongoing reviews in English by Dr. Kevin Krause, Wayne State U. Click here. | |
| Slovak news archives — Occasional weekly surveys from the 1990s. Click here. |
