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Jnok is a Slovak blackandwhite silent film from 1921. It relates the popular legend of the highwayman Juraj Jnok. It shows the filmmakers experience with early American movies in camera work, in the use of parallel narratives, and in sequences inspired by Westerns. Jnok placed Slovak filmmaking as the 10th national cinema in the world to produce a fulllength feature movie.

While on the run, Jnok finds himself fighting on the side of a band of highwaymen in a skirmish with the Counts cohort commanded by Pita Jozef Chylo, discards the frock, joins the band, and takes over the bands leadership. Jnoks band parties in the mountains, robs traveling noblemen, and uses disguise to rob the guests at the noblemens County Ball only to redistribute the booty among the farmers.Jnok rekindles a love affair with his childhood sweetheart Anika Mria Fbryov, who is sexually harassed by the Count. The local priest Frantiek Horliv helps Jnok with the coverup during his visits to the village. However, his frequent calls and yet another scuffle with the Count prove to be his undoing. With the help of a betrayer, the Counts men learn about Jnoks whereabouts and overpower him and his band during a drinking party in a tavern. Jnok is hanged. ........

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