Cinematography: Dodo Simoncic

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Dodo Simoncic. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Feather Fairy

1985 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Juraj Jakubisko

Cast Giulietta Masina · Tobias Hoesl · Petra Vancíková · Sona Valentová

Synopsis A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It...

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Vergeßt Mozart

1985 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Miloslav Luther

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Max Tidof · Wolfgang Preiss · Catarina Raacke

Synopsis In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects (Konstanze, Salieri, van Swieten, etc.) are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, who considered Mozart a potential revolutionary. Over the...

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Field Lilies

1972 · Movie · 80 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Elo Havetta

Cast Lotar Radványi · Vladimír Kostovic · Zofia Martisová · Ivan Krivosudsky

Synopsis The story of men who had returned home from World War I, soldiers who had been discharged and who did not know how to fit back into society, who did not know why they should go back to tilling the...

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Pink Dreams

1977 · Movie · 81 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Dusan Hanák

Cast Juraj Nvota · Iva Bittová · Josef Hlinomaz · Marie Motlová

Synopsis An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the...

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Crucial Years

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Juraj Jakubisko

Cast Jirí Sýkora · Jana Stehnová · Vlado Müller · Miriam Kantorková

Synopsis Tragicomic statement about the need of final decision of the man at the crossing of the life. Artist Juraj, Slovak livining at Prague, starts to understands indirection of his life without any obligations after he turns thirty. He starts gradually...

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Taxi nach Kairo

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Frank Ripploh

Cast Frank Ripploh · Christine Neubauer · Udo Schenk · Nina Schühly

Synopsis Eight years after we met him in Taxi Zum Klo, Frank is still up his same old tricks. In fact, the hustler he brought home last night tied him up and robbed him. His mom is pressuring him to marry...

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Frajeri a frajerky

1979 · Movie · 64 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Ludovit Filan

Synopsis The story of a thirteen-year-old boy, his first love and his desire to overcome his own fear.

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Wolfgang A. Mozart

1991 · Movie · 145 min. · Austria

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Nicky's Family

2011 · Documentary · 96 min. · Slovakia

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The Assistant

1982 · Movie · 94 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Zoro Zahon

Cast Gábor Koncz · Elo Romancik · Ildikó Pécsi · Marta Sládecková

Synopsis Butcher Riecan gets butchery in south Slovakia. His assistant Lancaric deals meat with smugglers. Family wealth is growing. Riečan's wife becomes vain. Riecan left her and becomes laborer. His wife and assistant are uncovered and punished.

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Direction Elo Havetta

Cast Slavoj Urban · Jirí Sýkora · Nina Divísková · Dusan Blaskovic

Synopsis This colorful ”fairy”-tale is about the need of miracles in life and of letting the charms of nature, where every single particle is in constant motion, take over as if in an impressionist painting. It is a mosaic built of...

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The Galoshes of Happiness

1986 · Movie · 89 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Juraj Herz

Cast Jana Brejchová · Therese Herz · José Luis López Vázquez · Marek Brodský

Synopsis One evening, two fairies - Worry and Fortune with their young assistant Mina - are walking through old Prague. As it is Fortune's birthday, she decides to give people a gift - she enchants quite ordinary slippers to fulfill the...

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Salt & Gold

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Hollý

Cast Libuse Safránková · Gábor Nagy · Karol Machata · Ladislav Chudík

Synopsis A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruska, fails...

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Oil Lamps

1971 · Movie · 101 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Juraj Herz

Cast Iva Janzurová · Petr Cepek · Marie Rosulková · Ota Sklencka

Synopsis In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then...

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