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- Birth name1961
- Film director, producer, writer. Graduated in film directing at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava. He's well-known for his trilogy of films about the British rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton: All My Loved Ones (1999), Nicholas Winton - The Power of Good (2002), Nicky's Family (2011). He made also a film about his mother, famous photographer Zuzana Minacova - Through the Eyes of the Photographer (2015). His films received more than 70 awards including International Emmy Award for outstanding documentary program; Best Documentary - Montreal World Film Festival; Audience Award - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Czech Lion - Best Czech Documentary for the last 15 year; Audio-Visual Memory Award, Jerusalem Film Festival; Prix Italia's special Signis Award; FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Award for best use of archives, British Film Institute; London; Christopher Award - New York; Grand Prix - International Film Festival Sedona (USA); Jury Award - Troia International Film Festival - Portugal.- IMDb mini biography by: Matej Minac
- [on genesis of Vsichni moji blízcí (1999)] My mother, who never talked about her experiences from childhood, suddenly, because she was doing some exhibition - the reconstruction of a family album - told me some very nice stories from her childhood, about her five crazy uncles who went to the casino - they were skirt-chasers - and she remembered that she had a very happy childhood and one day it stopped because of the war, and eventually most of the people from her childhood disappeared. Suddenly it struck me that this can be really a great story, which was actually never done before, that I wouldn't shoot a film about the wartime experiences, but I would shoot a film about what preceded the war from the perspective of a child. The child gradually starts to understand that something's happening and eventually he is the only one who is rescued.
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