Rivers of Babylon

2D35 mmORES15
Director:Vladimír Balco
Cast:Andrej Hryc, Diana Mórová, Vladimír Hajdu, Barbora Kodetová
Premiere:23. April 1998
Length:102 minutes
Genre:Drama

Rivers of Babylon

Rivers of Babylon; Vladimír Balco, 1998, versions: OR,ES, languages: slk

Týždeň slovenského filmu 2022.

Director: Vladimír Balco • Scenario: Peter Pišťanek, Marian Urban • Camera: Martin Štrba • Cast: Andrej Hryc, Diana Mórová, Vladimír Hajdu, Barbora Kodetová, Miroslav Noga

This tragicomic parable is about the increasing power of an un-educated, ill-mannered and dishonest stoker working at a hotel in Bratislava. Making advantage of the confused political and social situation in the country after 1989 he gradually becomes the most powerful person in the business. A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Peter Pišťanek.

Length: 102 min

Year: 1998
Local premiere date: 23. April 1998

Country of origin:

  • Slovakia
  • France
  • Czech Republic

Language version:

OR - Original version (slovak)
ES - English subtitles

Týždeň slovenského filmu 2022.

Director: Vladimír Balco • Scenario: Peter Pišťanek, Marian Urban • Camera: Martin Štrba • Cast: Andrej Hryc, Diana Mórová, Vladimír Hajdu, Barbora Kodetová, Miroslav Noga

This tragicomic parable is about the increasing power of an un-educated, ill-mannered and dishonest stoker working at a hotel in Bratislava. Making advantage of the confused political and social situation in the country after 1989 he gradually becomes the most powerful person in the business. A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Peter Pišťanek.

Year: 1998
Local premiere date: 23. April 1998

Country of origin:

  • Slovakia
  • France
  • Czech Republic

Language version:

OR - Original version (slovak)
ES - English subtitles