Movies by Janez Albreht

The Idealist
The movie based upon the classical Slovene novel Martin Kačur, depicts the clash between the teacher Martin Kačur and his conservative environment. Due to his progressive ideas, he is transferred to a small town. The village environment is even more depressing than his former surroundings were, as the influence of both the secular and the Church authorities is even greater in the country. Even though Martin meets Tončka and the two of them get married, he gradually becomes a disillusioned and embittered man. In time, when society's stricture...

On Paper Wings
A love story of a couple who both reconsider the meaning of their former lives, only to come up with decision that they should marry.

Wasteland
Set in the Tolminsko province of Slovenia in 1713, shortly after the Peasants' Uprising. The Grogovc family are forced to live in exile in a wasteland area of the country, where they suffer from the plague which gradually kills off the colony.

A Cormoran
A story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.

A Sand Castle
Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. There is a little kissing with both but nothing that could make the other jealous. During most of the movie they enjoy minor pleasures. But occasionally when the girl is alone she has attacks of very painful emotions. In the end it turns out that she is a former child-prisoner of a German KZ-lager, who had run away from a mental ...

A Real Pirate
A young boy is on vacation at the beach with his family. He becomes bored and wanders onto the set of a television production about pirates aboard a ship.
P.S. - Post Scriptum
A three-part omnibus drama that shows destinies of three grown men: first segment (Escape) is about a sculptor, the second segment (Shade) is about a loner, while the third segment (Ring) is about a movie star.

Heretic
The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana.