Štefan Uher (4 July 1930 – 29 March 1993) was a Slovak film director, one of the members of the

Czechoslovak New Wave The Czechoslovak New Wave (also Czech/Slovak New Wave) is a term used for the Czechoslovak filmmakers who started making films in the 1960s. The directors commonly included are Miloš Forman, Věra Chytilová, Jan Švankmajer, Ivan Passer, Pave ...

Life and work

He was born in

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on 4 June 1930. He graduated from the FAMU in

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in 1955. Among his fellow students were future directors Martin Hollý Jr. and Peter Solan. All three began to work at the Koliba film studios (then called the Feature Film Studio and the Short Film Studio) in

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after graduation. Uher first worked in the short film division. The first movie he directed was '' My z deviatej A'' about the life of a group of 15-year-old students and their school. His second feature was '' The Sun in a Net''. His next two movies '' The Organ'' (1964), and '' Three Daughters'' (1967) were based on screenplay by

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. He worked with a composer

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on 8 of his movies. Uher's last film ''

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'' (1982) has remained one of Slovakia's most popular domestic productions through the 2000s. The film was entered into the

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where it won the Silver Prize.

Filmography

Feature films

* ''Cesta nad oblaky'' (1955) * ''Bolo raz priatelstvo'' (1958) * ''My z deviatej A'' (1961) * '' The Sun in a Net'' (1962) * ''

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'' (1965) * ''Panna zázračnica'' (1966) (''Miraculous Virgin'') * ''Tri dcéry'' (1967) (''Three Daughters'') * ''Génius'' (1970) * ''Keby som mal pusku'' (1971) (''If I Had a Gun'') * ''Dolina'' (1973) * ''Javor a Juliana'' (1973) * ''Veľká noc a veľky den'' (1974) * ''Studené podnebie'' (1974, TV) * ''Keby som mal dievča'' (1976) (''If I Had a Girl'') * ''Zlaté časy'' (1978) (''Great Times'') * '' Penelopa'' (1978) * ''Kamarátky'' (1979) * ''Moje kone vrané'' (1980, TV mini-series) * ''Kosenie jastrabej luky'' (1981) (''Mowing of Hawk Meadow'') * ''

'' (1982) * ''Šiesta veta'' (1986) * ''Správca skanzenu'' (1988)

Documentaries

* ''Učitelka'' (1955) * ''Stredoeurópský pohár'' (1955) * ''Ludia pod Vihorlatom'' (1956) * ''Tú kráčajú tragédie'' (1957) * ''Niekedy v novembri'' (1958) * ''Lodníci bez mora'' (1958) * ''Poznačení tmou'' (1959) * ''Očami kamery'' (1959)

References

External links

* * Štefan Uher (dir., 1963
''The Sun in a Net''.
Clip 1 ("A solar eclipse and lies scared the authorities.") * Štefan Uher (dir., 1963

Clip 2 ("Filmic transition and titillation.") * Štefan Uher (dir., 1982

Clip 1 ("Crosscutting of love interests.") * Štefan Uher (dir., 1982

Clip 2 ("Off-screen fighting.") {{DEFAULTSORT:Uher, Stefan 1930 births 1993 deaths People from Prievidza Czechoslovak film people Slovak film directors