When we were thinking about an interesting Slovak film we realised that there are not many films we have seen at the cinema or TV. And the fact is that we are not very interested to go to the cinema and watch Slovak films. We could not even remember which Slovak film we have seen this year or saw last year. But finally we agreed to write about a film director who is popular in our country and whose films we have seen at the cinema or on TV. His name is Juraj Jakubisko. He is a Slovak film director but today he lives in Prague.

He was born in1938 in Kojšov, Slovakia and he is the most famous and esteemed living Slovak film director. Some people compare him with Fellini or Bergman and call him “Slovak Fellini”. The fact is that his movies differ from the others´. In his movies he describes life with the most beautiful colors, with the poetry behind the ordinary but he never forgets his roots. Several times he was voted the most significant Slovak film maker ever, by both the critics and the audience.

The exceptionality of his films you can see via the names of them:
An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (1997), It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill(1992), See You in Hell, Friends, I'm Sitting on a Branch and I'm Fine(1989), Build a House, Plant a Tree(1979) or Crucial Years(1967).

 
For us the most favourite is the fairy tale story Perinbaba (1985) (with Giulietta Masina). It is a story about Perinbaba, who sits on high and watches over humankind and the seasons and one day adopts young Jakob as her assistant. But back on earth, a certain Elizabeth is being persecuted by an evil stepmother and two sisters, and Jakob is intent on turning that situation around. To achieve his aims, he becomes mortal and returns to earth - but now Death stalks Jakob. It is up to Perinbaba to save her former ward and see that his mission is completed.
We can watch Perinbaba very often on TV mostly during the Christmas holiday. We can not even imagine this season without it.