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Stories Set in Slovakia
Slovakia is a small mountainous country between Poland, Ukraine and Hungary. With Tatra peaks and Danube plains, it plays supporting roles in other countries' epics. The Living Daylights crossed the border here; Hostel locked its doors here. Open Slovakia on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Slovakia on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Slovakia
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Browse 24 books, 72 movies and 4 games set in Slovakia.
The Living Daylights
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and…
Hostel
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the…
Daisies
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Hostel: Part II
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel and discover the grim reality behind it.
The Shop on Main Street
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and…
Shadow of the Vampire
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Closely Watched Trains
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him this young man embarks…
The Firemen's Ball
The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing a beauty pageant and a raffle. The whole town will be in attendance. However the…
The Confession
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia knowing he's being watched and followed is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
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