Štefan Uher

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 15yearold 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 Uhers last film She Grazed Horses on Concrete 1982 has remained one of Slovakias most popular domestic productions through the 2000s The film was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize