Vladimír Slavínský (26 September 1890 16 August 1949) was a Czech

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Life

Vladimír Slavínský was born Otakar Vladimír Pitrman in Dolní Štěpánice, on 26 September 1890. Since his youth he acted in amateur theatres while working as a typesetter. In 1912 he wrote his first two screenplays. After the World War I he co-founded a production company Pojafilm with Alois Jalovec and started directing. He directed mostly sentimental dramas and comedy films, which were very commercially successful at the time. He died in

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on 16 August 1949.

Selected filmography

Director

* '' The Son of the Mountains'' (1925) * '' The Little Window'' (1933) * '' Three Men in the Snow'' (1936) * '' Delightful Story'' (1936) * '' The Minister's Girlfriend'' (1940) * '' Lawyer of the Poor'' (1941) * '' Chalk and Cheese'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1942) * ''Seine beste Rolle'' (1944), Nazi German film * '' Just Getting Started'' (1946) * ''

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'' (1947) * '' No Surgery Hours Today'' (1948)

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