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Filmmaker · Slovakia

Peter Solan

Died in 2013

Peter Solan was born on 25 April 1929 in Banská Bystrica and studied directing at the Prague film school from 1949 to 1955. At the documentary studio in Bratislava, then at the fiction studio from 1956, he directed in 1959 Muž, ktorý sa nevrátil, the first Slovak crime film, and often worked with the screenwriters Peter Karvaš and Tibor Vichta. Under normalisation, he was moved to the short film studio, then returned to fiction in 1979. Winner of the Igric Prize for his entire body of work in 1994, he died in Bratislava on 21 September 2013.

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