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Filmmaker · Slovakia

Elo Havetta

Died in 1975

Eliáš Havetta, known as Elo, was born on 13 June 1938 in Veľké Vozokany, near Zlaté Moravce. A pupil from 1953 to 1957 at the school of applied arts in Bratislava, where he studied photography, he made a first film there with Juraj Jakubisko, then studied from 1961 to 1966 at the film school in Prague, under Karel Kachyňa, without formally obtaining his diploma. His first feature film won him the Silver Siren for direction at Sorrento in 1969. Under normalisation, his two films were shelved and Bratislava television gave him only minor work. He died in Bratislava on 3 February 1975.

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