Elmar Klos

Elmar Klos (1910, Brno – 1993, Prague) showed an interest in moviemaking during the silent era and gradually tried his hand at a variety of film professions. He and Ján Kadár worked together for 17 years, making 8 movies. Of their three top contributions during the 1960s, the most successful was The Shop on Main Street (1965), which took the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1966. After the Prague Spring of August 1968, Klos was prevented from engaging in any film activities and was thrown out of Prague's Film Academy (FAMU), where he had been lecturing.

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