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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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Jul 7, 2021 · The Shop on Main Street. An inept Slovak peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the Nazi-backed bosses of his town appoint him “Aryan controller” of an old Jewish widow’s button shop.
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Kadár is remembered by most as the director of what is widely regarded as one of the best films about the Holocaust. Yet, it is also true that Holocaust films almost became a genre in the former Czechoslovakia.
jan kadar by nicholas pasquariello For Czech director Jan Kadar, the making of Lies My Father Told Me proved to be a mixed blessing. Today, his comments are especially pertinent as the film industry measures the distance it has come since 1974, and questions the direction in which it is headed.
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Sep 26, 1975 · Lies My Father Told Me: Directed by Ján Kadár. With Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Jeff Lynas. A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
