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Ján Kadár (1 April 1918 – 1 June 1979) was a Slovak film writer and director of Jewish heritage. As a filmmaker, he worked in Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Canada. Most of his films were directed in tandem with Elmar Klos. The two became best known for their Oscar-winning The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965).
Ján Kadár was born on 1 April 1918 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director and writer, known for The Shop on Main Street (1965), Smrt si ríká Engelchen (1963) and Obzalovaný (1964). He died on 1 June 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
May 28, 2024 · Ján Kadár was a motion-picture director who was important in the “New Wave” of Czechoslovak cinema of the early 1960s. Kadár attended Charles University, Prague, and the Film School at Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (1938). During World War II he was interned in a Nazi labour camp, after which he.
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Czech director Ján Kadár (1918–1979) became the first filmmaker from Czechoslovakia to win an Academy Award for best foreign film for The Shop on Main Street. The 1965 cinema classic is a bittersweet tale of an elderly Jewish shopkeeper in a small Slovakian town during World War II, and the troubles that befall her.
Ján Kadár ( 1. dubna 1918 Budapešť – 1. června 1979 Los Angeles) byl slovenský filmový scenárista a režisér, od roku 1952 blízký spolupracovník českého režiséra Elmara Klose. S ním natočil svoje nejznámější filmy jako Obchod na korze, který byl oceněn Oscarem.
The Shop on Main Street: Directed by Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos. With Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarík, Hana Slivková. A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
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Ján Kadár is undoubtedly best known for his film The Shop on the High Street , made with his long–time collaborator, Elmar Klos. This was the first Czechoslovak film to win an Academy Award and was heralded as the beginning of the Czech film renaissance of the 1960s.
