Štefan Uher

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-07-04

Deathday 1993-03-29 (62 years old)

Place of Birth Prievidza, Slovakia

Štefan Uher

Biography

Štefan Uher (4 July 1930 – 29 March 1993) was a Slovak film director, one of the members of the Czechoslovak New Wave. He was born in Prievidza on 4 June 1930. He graduated from the FAMU in Prague in 1955. Among his fellow students were future directors Martin Hollý Jr. and Peter Solan. All three began to work at the Koliba film studios (then called the Feature Film Studio and the Short Film Studio) in Bratislava after graduation. Uher first worked in the short film division. The first movie he directed was My z deviatej A about the life of a group of 15-year-old students and their school. His second feature was The Sun in a Net. His next two movies The Organ (1964), and Three Daughters (1967) were based on screenplay by Alfonz Bednár. He worked with a composer Ilja Zeljenka on 8 of his movies. Uher's last film She Grazed Horses on Concrete (1982) has remained one of Slovakia's most popular domestic productions through the 2000s. The film was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.

Known For

Director

1982
1980
Moje kone vrané

as Director

1979
Great Times

as Director

1979
Kamarátky

as Director

1978
Penelopa

as Director

1976
If I Had a Girl

as Director

1975
1975
Studené podnebie

as Director

1973
Maple and Juliana

as Director

1973
Dolina

as Director

1971
If I Had a Gun

as Director

1969
The Genius

as Director

1968
Three Daughters

as Director

1967
Miraculous Virgin

as Director

1965
The Organ

as Director

1963
The Sun in a Net

as Director

1962
My z deviatej A

as Director

1959
Marked by Darkness

as Director

Writer

1980
Moje kone vrané

as Co-Writer

1979
Great Times

as Screenplay

1973
Dolina

as Screenplay

1963
Interview

as Screenplay

1963
Interview

as Story

1959

Actor

2009
Golden Sixties

as Self (archive footage)