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Peter Solan
Director 1929 - 2013

Peter Solan

Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]

Peter Solan (25 April 1929 – 21 September 2013) was a Slovak film director and documentarian. He is considered part of the Czech New Wave movement. Solan was born in Banská Bystrica. He graduated from the Prague Film Academy of Performing Arts in 1953. He was given the Igric... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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5 titles
A pobezim az na kraj sveta

A pobezim az na kraj sveta

Peter Solan 1979 1h 11m 8.0

Majka "Chatterbox" is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. While her mother keeps scolding her for the way she walks, her classmates mock her and call her a "duck". Along an innocent first love affair and a secret friendship, she receives little understanding from her parents and lots of malice from her schoolmates.

Dialóg 20-40-60

Dialóg 20-40-60

Jerzy Skolimowski, Zbyněk Brynych 1968 1h 18m 7.0

In this experimental film the same dialogue is treated by three directors in three different settings. In one 20 year old's speak the words, in the other two 40 and 60 year old's. The dialogue itself involves a man coming home to humiliation, the reconciliation followed again by separation.

A sekat dobrotu...

A sekat dobrotu...

Peter Solan 1968 24m

A woman prisoner is harshly incarcerated and suddenly released.

Prípad Barnabás Kos

Prípad Barnabás Kos

Peter Solan 1965 1h 28m

In this satire on Art under Socialism, a minor musician who plays the humble triangle becomes a tyrannical orchestra director.

Boxer a smrt

Boxer a smrt

Peter Solan 1963 1h 47m

In a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing ability. Ordered to train, he gradually sharpens his skills.

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