As Director
O sláve a tráve
1985
4.0
Peter Solan
Directing
Birth date
April 25, 1929
Birth place
Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]
Death date
September 21, 2013
Biography
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 Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1994, and in 2004 he was awarded the Prize of the Slovak Minister of Culture for Extraordinary Creative Contribution to Slovak Cinema.
