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Ján Kadár
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Born
April 1
,
1918
·
Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died
June 1
,
1979
·
Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth name
Janos Kadár
Mini Bio
Ján Kadár was born on April 1, 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 June 1, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Trivia
His parents and sister died at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
Expatriate from Czechoslovakia, came to the USA in 1968.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 488-492. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
Studied at the Bratislava Film School. Best known for his long collaboration with Elmar Klos from 1952.
After moving to the United States, he became a professor of film direction at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California.
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