Elmar Klos
Birthday: 1910-01-26
Place of Birth: Brno, Moravia, AustriaHungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Biography: Elmar Klos (26 January 1910 – 19 July 1993) was a Czech film director. He collaborated for 17 years with his Slovak colleague Ján Kadár and with him won the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for the film The Shop on Main Street. They directed the 1963 film Death Is Called Engelchen, which entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival and won a Golden Prize.
Movies
Defendant
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money....
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An Occasion to Speak
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965....
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Nemocný bílý slon
The fate of an unlucky director of a dismantled cultural house who temporarily believes in the meani...
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CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a se...
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Before Graduation
The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life a...
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