Matija Barl (17 February 1940 – 3 August 2018) was a Slovenian

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, producer and

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. In 1962 he founded and organized the first, oldest and most important Slovenian

music festival A music festival is a festival, community event with music, performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock music, rock, blues, folk music, folk, jazz, classical music), nation ...

called

Slovenska popevka Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arkan ...

Biography

Barl was born in

Ljubljana {{Infobox settlement , name = Ljubljana , official_name = , settlement_type = Capital city , image_skyline = {{multiple image , border = infobox , perrow = 1/2/2/1 , total_widt ...

and lived around where he loved to play. When he was 11 years he went to the audition for the movie ''

Kekec Kekec is a fictional children's literature character created by Slovenian author Josip Vandot in 1918. He was first introduced in the serial "Kekec on the Hard Path" () in ''Zvonček'' magazine (volume 19, issue 1/2). He is a young shepherd boy ...

'' where he was chosen out of more than a thousand kids. He got the role of main character

, a strong and fearless child

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, for which he is best known today. Everyone identified him with this role so strongly that all the kids in real life wanted to fight with him. So he had to take classes for

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such as

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and

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.MOJA GENERACIJA z Mojco Mavec - gost Matija Barl - prvi Kekec (slovene)
/ref> Later he attended the

Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television The Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television ( or AGRFT) is an academy of the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the only college and graduate school in Slovenia with a similar curriculum. It is composed of three colleges: ...

Ljubljana {{Infobox settlement , name = Ljubljana , official_name = , settlement_type = Capital city , image_skyline = {{multiple image , border = infobox , perrow = 1/2/2/1 , total_widt ...

where he studied

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. In 1962 he moved to

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where he worked as independent producer, translator and occasional actor. He lived in Marezige, Slovenia.

Work

Barl is best known for playing role of the

character. He also wrote lyrics for songs of important Slovenian music artists, work as producer, performing in documentary. His works are: * ''

'' (1951) - actor * ''

Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte ''Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte'' (''Black and White Like Day and Night'') is a West Germany, West German film from 1978 directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Bruno Ganz. Plot Thomas Rosemund, a scientist who swore off playing ch ...

'' (TV movie, 1978) - actor * ''Pozabljeni zaklad'' (2006) - actor * ''Madame Pompadour'' (TV movie, 1974) - unit manager * ''

'' (TV movie, 1978) - production leader * ''Zgodba gospoda P.F.'' (documentary, 2002) - composer * ' (TV movie, 1982) - producer * ''Der verliebte Teufel'' (TV movie, 1971) - assistant director * ''Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus'' (TV movie, 1971) - location manager

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barl, Matija 1940 births 2018 deaths Male actors from Ljubljana Slovenian male film actors Slovenian composers Slovenian male composers Slovenian translators University of Ljubljana alumni 20th-century Slovenian male actors 20th-century Slovenian translators Male child actors Slovenian male musicians