Štefan Uher Explained

Štefan Uher
Birth Date:	4 July 1930
Birth Place:	Prievidza
Death Place:	Bratislava
Occupation:	Film director, screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1955-1989

Štefan Uher (4 July 1930  - 29 March 1993) was a Slovak film director, one of the members of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

Life and work

He was born in Prievidza on 4 June 1930. He graduated from the FAMU in Prague in 1955.^[1] Among his fellow students were future directors Martin Hollý Jr. and Peter Solan. All three began to work at the Koliba film studios^[2] (then called the Feature Film Studio and the Short Film Studio) in Bratislava 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),^[3] and Three Daughters (1967) were based on screenplay by Alfonz Bednár.

He worked with a composer Ilja Zeljenka on 8 of his movies.^[4]

Uher's last film She Grazed Horses on Concrete (1982) has remained one of Slovakia's most popular domestic productions through the 2000s.^[5] The film was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.^[6]

Filmography

Feature films

• Cesta nad oblaky (1955)
• Bolo raz priatelstvo (1958)
• My z deviatej A (1961)
• The Sun in a Net (1962)
• Organ (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)
• She Grazed Horses on Concrete (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)

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) The Sun in a Net. Clip 2 ("Filmic transition and titillation.")
• Štefan Uher (dir., 1982) She Grazed Horses on Concrete. Clip 1 ("Crosscutting of love interests.")
• Štefan Uher (dir., 1982) She Grazed Horses on Concrete. Clip 2 ("Off-screen fighting.")

Notes and References

1. http://web.amu.cz/?r_id=610 FAMU
2. http://mapy.zoznam.sk/index.pl?zoom=9&pos_x=-573882&pos_y=-1277770&size=small&lang=sk&sipka=1&name=Bre%E8tanov%E1%2C%20Bratislava Koliba
3. http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/3/organ.shtml Peter Konečný, "Štefan Uher: The Organ (Organ), 1964."
4. Web site: The Sun in a Net . 2010-07-03 . Votruba . Martin . Slovak Studies Program . University of Pittsburgh.
5. Web site: She Grazed Horses on Concrete . 2010-07-03 . Votruba . Martin . Slovak Studies Program . University of Pittsburgh.
6. Web site: 13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983) . 2013-01-31 . MIFF.