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Filmmaker · Slovakia

Ján Kadár

Died in 1979

Ján Kadár was born on 1 April 1918 in Budapest. He began studying law in Bratislava, then in 1938 entered the film section of the school of industrial arts, where he studied with Karol Plicka until 1939. Interned during the war in a labour camp under the anti-Jewish laws, he made a first documentary in Bratislava after 1945, settled in Prague in 1947 and from 1952 formed a tandem with Elmar Klos. Having left for the United States in November 1968, he taught at the American Film Institute, made films in the United States and Canada and died in Los Angeles on 1 June 1979.

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