“Ludevít Štúr is a personality who can carry a great pathos, a great gesture, big words and a large format without it appearing disproportionate. We tried to express with the film visuals that Štúr seemed to have a mission: a deeply internalized, insistent need to define a nation, to give it a language, a shape and an awareness of itself. At the same time, a personal level can also be read in this image. Štúr could not return the love, because as if he had no inner space for it, his whole being was filled with the belief that he had to work and die for the nation. His personal life still raises questions today, we inevitably fill it with the content we need – as a society, as a nation, that is trying to create a relationship with him. We are not accidental after all, he has been placed at the top of the pantheon of Slovakia’s patrons: we have named streets, squares, cities and institutions after him.” says Mariana Čengel Solčanská, who not only directed the film, but also wrote the screenplay based on her own book model.
Film Stur will enter theaters on January 15, 2026. Lukáš Pelč will play the lead role, who is also the film’s producer. The audience will see Ivana Kološová, Richard Autner, Marek Igonda, František Kovár, Csongor Kassai, Petr Oszlík, Jana Kvantíková, Daniel Žulčák and others.
The creation of the film was supported by the Audiovisual Fund, the script was supported by the Literary Fund. The producer is The Factory s.r.o., the co-producer is STVR, and the exclusive partner of the film is TMR. It will be shown in cinemas by the distribution company CinemArt SK.
They are the author of the poster Martin Bajaník a Matús Bence.
Bajanik has a significant profile in the field of communication design and creation of visual identities, he is the co-founder and designer of the Shtoor and Foxford café chains in Bratislava, and as a designer he was at the birth of the food identity Yeme. He is an active member of the Union of Graphic Designers of Slovakia and Art Directors Club Slovakia, and his work has won dozens of awards in the field of design and visual communication. Bajaník sees design as a combination of image and word that can shape the identity of brands and public spaces. For his work, he received numerous Golden Nail awards, as well as the Art Prix award.
According to me is a graphic artist and creative creator of visual communication who has established himself as an author of original visual concepts, advertising, photographs and complex visual solutions. He is a well-known name in the Slovak creative community and his work straddles the border between design, advertising and art.
