Jan Kadar

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1979 Died while shooting "Freedom Road: Part One", featuring Kris Kristofferson and Muhammed Ali, for television

1975 Last feature film, the Canadian "Lies My Father Told Me"

1973 Made first TV-movie, "The Blue Hotel"

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1979 Died while shooting "Freedom Road: Part One", featuring Kris Kristofferson and Muhammed Ali, for television

1975 Last feature film, the Canadian "Lies My Father Told Me"

1973 Made first TV-movie, "The Blue Hotel"

1969 Made first US film, "The Angel Levine" (released 1970); shooting completed in June

1969 Returned to Czechoslovakia long enough to complete "Adrift"

1969 Klos and Kadar ended partnership; Kadar returned to US

1968 Shooting of "Adrift" (with Klos as associate director and co-screenwriter only) interrupted by the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in August; Kadar escaped to Vienna across the border

1963 Directed (with Klos) first film after end of suspension, "Death Is Called Engelchen"; film won first prize at the Moscow Film Festival and at the Los Alamos Peace Festival

1960 Directed "Youth", a segment of the experimental film "Polyecran", which needed nine screens in order to be projected; also worked on the sports documentary "Spartakiade"

1959 Kadar and Klos suspended for two years after making "Tri prani/The Three Wishes" (1958), which detailed postwar cynicism and housing shortages

1954 Caused some controversy when his second film with Klos, the musical comedy "Music from Mars", presented its hero, the director of a factory, in a comic light; film eventually released to great popular

1952 Returned to Barrandov; first teamed with Elmar Klos as co-directors when they made the political thriller "Unos/The Hijacking"

1950 Went to Slovakia to direct first feature film, "Katka/Katya/Cathy" (also co-wrote with Vlatislav Blazek)

1946 Moved to Barrandov; first met Elmar Klos; worked as an assistant director and a scenarist; attracted attention for his script of the comedy, "Know of a Flat?" (date approximate)

1945 Began film career at a studio in Bratislava specializing in shorts; directed first film, "Life Is Rising from the Ruins", about the reconstruction of Slovakia after the war

Left school to fight in WWII

Was interned at a Nazi labor camp during WWII

Worked on the production team of "Laterna Magika" (1958) and "Laterna Magika II" (1960)