• THE HUNGARIAN DRESSMAKER

    Directed by Iveta Grófová
    Slovakia, Czechia | 129 minutes | California Premiere | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

Film Festival 2025

Set in the nationalistic, Nazi-allied wartime Slovak state, this powerfully visual tale follows Marika, a widowed dressmaker from the Hungarian minority, who loses her job in Bratislava. Back in her late husband’s village home, she hides a young Jewish boy.

film details

Director: Iveta Grófová
Producers: Zuzana Mistríková, Ondřej Trojan
Screenwriter: Iveta Grófová, Peter Krištúfek
Cinematographers: Martin Štrba
Editor: Martin Malo
Music: Matej Hlaváč, Tobiáš Potočný
Cast: Alexandra Borbély, Milan Ondrík, Nico Klimek, Alexander E. Fennon, Florentin Groll
Original Language Title: Ema a Smrtihlav
Country: Slovakia, Czechia
Language: In Slovak and Czech, Hungarian, German with English subtitles
Year: 2024
Running Time: 129 minutes
Premiere Status: California Premiere
Director Filmography: Little Harbour (2017), Made in Ash (2012)
Primary Company: REASON8 Films

Film Festival 2025