PROGRAME ARCHIVE: DIRECTOR

Elmar Klos

26.01.1910, Brünn, Austria-Hungary (today Brno, Czech Republic) - 31.07.1993, Prague, Czech Republic

Redatelj i scenarist, kao nećak scenarista, na filmu je počeo raditi već kao tinejdžer. Studirao je pravo na sveučilištu u Pragu i samostalno režirao nekoliko kratkih filmova. Nakon Drugog svjetskoga rata u filmskom studiju Barandov upoznaje Jána Kadára što će postati ključnim za karijere obojice. Scenarističko-redateljsku suradnju započeli su filmom Únos (1952), a nastavili sa Hudba z Marsu (1955), Tam na konecne (1957), Tri práni (1958) koji im je donio zabranu rada na dvije godine, Smrt se zove Engelchen (Smrt si řika Engelchen, 1963), Obzalovany (1964); njihovo najpoznatije djelo Trgovina na korzu (Obchod na korze, 1965) nagrađeno Oscarom. Snimanje posljednjeg zajedničkog filma Touha zvaná Anada zaustavljeno je zbog sovjetske invazije na Čehoslovačku 1968. godine. Film je završen 1970, a pušten u javnost 1971. godine. Nakon odlaska Jána Kadára u SAD, Klos je režirao još samo jedan film, Bizon (1989). Nakon prestanka rada na filmu, neko je vrijeme predavao na poznatoj praškoj filmskoj školi FAMU.

Filmography

Death Is Called Engelchen (Smrt si řika Engelchen, 1963)
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965)

Films by this director

The Shop on Main Street

(Obchod na korze, Čehoslovačka, 1965)

Directed by: Ján Kadár

PHOTOGRAPHY: Vladimír Novotný

Synopsis:

During WW II, when the Nazi government nationalized all Jews’ possessions, a lazy carpenter, Antonin Brtko, becomes the supervisor of a small store with sewing equipment. The owner of the store is an old, deaf Jewish woman, Rozalie, who lives in her own world and is completely unaware of the war and danger around her. She accepts Antonin thinking that he needs a job and over time they become friends. The film received an Oscar as Best Foreign Film in 1965.

b/w, 128 min

Death Is Called Engelchen

(Smrt si rika Engelchen, 1963)

Directed by: Ján Kadár

PHOTOGRAPHY: Rudolf Milic

Synopsis:

The main character is a Czech partisan fighting in WW II. Just before peace is declared, he gets shot in the spine and has to be transported to a hospital. Trying to stay conscious he remembers the events that took place before he joined the partisans. His main motive for staying alive is to get his revenge on the German officer Engelchen, whom he holds responsible for the death of his friends.

b/w, 35 mm, 111 min

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