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Andrea Štaka
Andrea Štaka is a Switzerland, Swiss film director and screenwriter, best known for winning the Golden Leopard at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival in 2006 for her film, ''Das Fräulein''. Štaka was born in Lucerne in 1973. She attended the Foundation Course in Media Studies al London College of Printing, then enrolled at the film and video department of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich (1993–98). Her graduation work, a short film ''Hotel Belgrad'', received wide acclaim and won several awards. Her first feature film ''Das Fräulein'' explored a very personal topic — lives of three generations of Yugoslavian women trying to build a life in Switzerland, each haunted with dramas of the past. For this movie, she received ''Golden Leopard'' at Locarno Festival and was immediately included into the circle of leading Swiss filmmakers. Her 2020 feature film ''Mare'' starring Marija Škaričić was screened at numerous film festivals and won Best Film awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Štaka Max-Ophüls-Festival 2015
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrey, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek language, Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that refers to man as opposed to woman (whereas ''man'' in the sense of ''human being'' is ἄνθρωπος, ''ánthropos''). The original male Greek name, ''Andréas'', represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the ''andr-'' prefix, like Androgeos (''man of the earth''), Androcles (''man of glory''), Andronicus (other), Andronikos (''man of victory''). In the year 2006, it was the third most popular name in Italy with 3.1% of newborns. It is one of the Italian male names ending in ''a'', with others being Elia (other), Elia (Elias), Enea (Aeneas (other), Aeneas), Luca (given name), Luca (Lucas (given name), Lucas), Mattia (other), Mattia ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |