- Štefan Uher
Štefan Uher (June 4 ,1930 ,Prievidza −March 29 ,1993 ,Bratislava ) was a Slovak film director, one of the founders of the "Czechoslovak New Wave ".He graduated from the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) [ [http://web.amu.cz/?r_id=610 FAMU] ] in
Prague in 1955. Among his fellow students were future directorsMartin Hollý Jr. andPeter Solan who also began to work at the Koliba film studios [ [http://mapy.zoznam.sk/index.pl?zoom=9&pos_x=-573882&pos_y=-1277770&size=small&lang=sk&sipka=1&name=Bre%E8tanov%E1%2C%20Bratislava Koliba] ] (then called the Feature Film Studio and the Short Film Studio) inBratislava after graduation.Uher first worked in the short film division. "
The Sun in a Net " was his second feature film. His first one was "We from Study Group 9-A " ("My z deviatej A," 1962) about the life of a group of 15-year-old students and their school.Uher followed "The Sun in a Net" by two more films with the same author-screenwriter
Alfonz Bednár and cameraman −Stanislav Szomolányi , later professor of cinematography at the University of Performing Arts, [ [http://www.vsmu.sk VŠMU] ] Bratislava: "The Organ " ("Organ," 1964), [ [http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/3/organ.shtml Peter Konečný, "Štefan Uher: "The Organ (Organ)," 1964."] ] and "Three Daughters " ("Tri dcéry," 1967).The original music score in "The Sun in a Net" is by Ilja Zeljenka, an avant-garde composer of
musique concrète , who also worked with Uher on "We from Study Group 9-A," and went on to work with him on six more films.Uher's and Szomolányi's latest film "
She Grazed Horses on Concrete " ("Pásla kone na betóne," 1982) has remained one of Slovakia's most popular domestic productions through the 2000s.Filmography
;Director
* "Správca skanzenu " (1988)
* "Siesta veta " (1986)
* "Pásla kone na betóne " (1982)
"A Ticket to the Heaven "
"Concrete Pastures "
"She Kept Asking for the Moon "
* "Kosenie jastrabej luky " (1981)
"Mowing of Hawk Meadow "
* ""Moje kone vrané" " (1980, TV mini-series)
* "Kamarátky " (1979)
* "Penelopa " (1978)
* "Zlaté casy " (1978)
"Great Times "
* "Keby som mal dievca " (1976)
"If I Had a Girl "
* "Studené podnebie " (1974, TV)
* "Veľká noc a veľky den " (1974)
* "Javor a Juliana " (1973)
* "Dolina " (1973)
* "Keby som mal pusku " (1971)
"If I Had a Gun "
* "Génius " (1970)
* "Tri dcéry " (1967)
"Three Daughters "
* "Panna zázracnica " (1966)
"Miraculous Virgin "
* "Organ" (1965)
* "Varhany " (1964)
* "Slnko v sieti " (1962)
"The Sun in a Net "
* "My z 9.A " (1961)
* "Ocami kamery " (1959)
* "Poznacení tmou " (1959)
* "Bolo raz priatelstvo " (1958)
* "Lodníci bez mora " (1958)
* "Niekedy v novembri " (1958)
* "Tú krácajú tragédie " (1957)
* "Ludia pod Vihorlatom " (1956)
* "Cesta nad oblaky " (1955)
* "Stredoeurópský pohár " (1955)
* "Ucitelka " (1955);Writer
* "Siesta veta " (1986)
* "Pásla kone na betóne " (1982)
"A Ticket to the Heaven "
"Concrete Pastures "
"She Kept Asking for the Moon "
* "Dolina " (1973)References
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