FILM DIRECTOR

Elmar Klos

1910 - 1993

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Elmar Klos (26 January 1910 – 19 July 1993) was a Czech film director. He collaborated for 17 years with his Slovak colleague Ján Kadár 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elmar Klos is the 746th most popular film director (down from 574th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 369th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Elmar Klos ranks 746 out of 2,041. Before him are Jaromil Jireš, B. R. Chopra, Mario Salieri, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Tran Anh Hung, and Ivan Passer. After him are Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Jack Arnold, Peter Stein, Phillip Noyce, Clyde Geronimi, and Chris Carter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Elmar Klos ranks 191. Before him are Olga Bergholz, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Ángel Sanz Briz, Otto Andersson, Else Alfelt, and Francisco Coloane. After him are Maxim Munzuk, Edwin O. Reischauer, László Lékai, Cao Yu, Gunter d'Alquen, and Ram Manohar Lohia. Among people deceased in 1993, Elmar Klos ranks 148. Before him are Edward Bernard Raczyński, David Koresh, Giuseppe Occhialini, Norman Vincent Peale, Elvira Popescu, and Erich Leinsdorf. After him are Edith Farkas, John Frost, Camargo Guarnieri, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Paul Mebus, and Chishū Ryū.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Elmar Klos ranks 480 out of 1,200. Before him are Herbert Feigl (1902), Arnošt Lustig (1926), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), Ernst Tugendhat (1930), Vaclav Smil (1943), and Ivan Passer (1933). After him are Olga Fikotová (1932), Eduard Čech (1893), Jiří Dienstbier (1937), Vojtěch Jasný (1925), František Vláčil (1924), and Miroslav Ondříček (1934).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Elmar Klos ranks 16. Before him are Otakar Vávra (1911), Karl Freund (1890), František Čáp (1913), Jan Němec (1936), Karel Lamač (1897), and Ivan Passer (1933). After him are Vojtěch Jasný (1925), František Vláčil (1924), Harun Farocki (1944), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), Gustav Machatý (1901), and Oldřich Lipský (1924).

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