Elmar Klos (26 January 1910 – 19 July 1993)
was a
Czech film director who collaborated for 17 years with his
Slovak colleague
Ján Kadár
Ján Kadár (1 April 1918 – 1 June 1979) was a Hungarian-born 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 Elma ...
and with him won the 1965 Oscar for
Best Foreign Language Film for the film ''
The Shop on Main Street''.
They directed the 1963 film ''
Death Is Called Engelchen'', which entered into the
3rd Moscow International Film Festival and won a Golden Prize.
Filmography
References
1910 births
1993 deaths
Czech film directors
Czechoslovak film directors
Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners
Film people from Brno
Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery
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