Editing Panelák (section)

==Popular culture==
* The movie ''Panelstory'' from [[Věra Chytilová]] shows the life of several inhabitants in a real unfinished communist-bloc apartment. Awarded a Great Prize in [[Sanremo|San Remo]] in 1980.
* [[Béla Tarr]]'s film ''Panelkapcsolat'' tells a doomed love story set in a similar housing estate in Hungary. Special Mention at the 1982 [[Locarno Film Festival]].
* Polish director [[Krzysztof Kieślowski]]'s celebrated ''[[Dekalog]]'' series is set in a {{Lang|pl|wielka płyta}} housing estate in Warsaw, Poland.
* The long-running Slovak soap opera [[Panelák (TV series)|''Panelák'']] focused on the residents of a single block in Bratislava. 
* Other popular TV series set largely within the confines of a panelák include the long running sitcom Susedia (''Neighbours''), focusing on the relationships between the ethnically Slovak and Slovak-Hungarian families living within the building, as well as some episodes of the [[stop-motion animation]] series ''[[Pat & Mat]]''.
* The Czech horror-game [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333890/Panelak/ ''Panelak''] released in 2024 is set in an old socialist-era building where strange things happen.