Directing
Štefan Uher
Born July 4, 1930 · Prievidza, Slovakia
Died March 29, 1993 · aged 62
Štefan Uher (4 July 1930 – 29 March 1993) was a Slovak film director, one of the members of the Czechoslovak New Wave. He was born in Prievidza on 4 June 1930. He graduated from the FAMU in Prague in 1955. Among his fellow students were future directors Martin Hollý Jr. and Peter Solan. All three began to work at the Koliba film studios (then called the Feature Film Studio and the Short Film Stud…
Known For
Dolina · 1973Dolina
★ 7.01973
MovieWarDrama
A dramatic story of the emotional, moral and political maturation of two young people during the Slovak National Uprising.
She Kept Asking for the Moon · 1982She Kept Asking for the Moon
★ 6.91982
MovieComedyDrama
Johanka had a fling with a well digger she had not met before and who, she was most likely certain, would never be around again. Just before his departure, they have sex and she eventually becomes single mother of a baby girl. Now, 18 years later, her daughter Paulina commutes by bus to work in the nearby city, which gives the village gossips the occasional opportunity to remind her of her unknown father. A resultant conflict with her mother makes Paulina take up residence in the city. Johanka, prodded by her also-single friend Jozefka who maintains that a woman without a man is nothing, begins to woo the new teacher Jarek only to discover later that he is married. Paulina, in the meantime, loses her virginity to the soldier Jirka who promptly makes himself scarce. Johanka fails to consider that she actually has a better life than some of her married neighbors, begins to see.
The Sun in a Net · 1963The Sun in a Net
★ 7.31963
MovieDrama
Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
If I Had a Girl · 1976If I Had a Girl
★ 6.51976
MovieDrama
Vlado has just passed his high school diploma and is starting a job as a home tutor in the family of a big businessman. He finds himself in a very difficult turning point in 1947-48. He does not understand much of what is happening around him. He constantly experiences emotional confusion, comes into conflict with his conscience and finally has to decide between love and reason...
The Curator of Outdoor Museum · 1989The Curator of Outdoor Museum
★ 9.01989
MovieDrama
The story of a man who decides to leave his job and good position to return to his native region and become the administrator of an open-air museum. This step is primarily his personal rebellion against the abuse of his scientific work. It is only a personal confession in a conversation with his teenage daughter that brings him moral cleansing and a return to his lost psychological balance. The final film by Slovak director Stefan Uher.
My z deviatej A · 1962My z deviatej A
★ 8.01962
MovieDrama
A contemporary story about the emotional maturation of fifteen-year-olds, their relationships with school and their future profession. A secret group of "Timurs" works at the school, which condemns shortcomings in behavior and works for the benefit of the students. Against the background of their detective work, the relationship between Ivan and Dana develops, which is disrupted by Dana's irreversible vision defect.
Miraculous Virgin · 1967Miraculous Virgin
★ 5.41967
MovieMysteryDrama
A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.
If I Had a Gun · 1971If I Had a Gun
★ 7.71971
MovieDramaComedy
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
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