FILM DIRECTOR

Elmar Klos

1910 - 1993

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Elmar Klos (26 January 1910 – 19 July 1993) was a Czech film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elmar Klos has received more than 56,518 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Elmar Klos is the 572nd most popular film director (up from 788th in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 450th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Czech Film Director.

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  • 22

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  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Elmar Klos ranks 572 out of 2,041. Before him are Georges Lautner, Anthony Asquith, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Franco Rossi, Peter Stein, and Jean-Paul Rappeneau. After him are André Delvaux, Lewis Gilbert, Roger Donaldson, Rintaro, Frederick Wiseman, and Budd Boetticher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Elmar Klos ranks 146. Before him are Joy Adamson, Louis Prima, Ernst Schäfer, Heinrich Sutermeister, Pierre Bézier, and Magda Olivero. After him are Yekaterina Furtseva, Claire Trevor, Nathan Alterman, Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jean Servais, and José Lezama Lima. Among people deceased in 1993, Elmar Klos ranks 112. Before him are Henry Hazlitt, Clarence Zener, William L. Shirer, Jan Gies, Elvira Popescu, and Sebastiano Baggio. After him are William Berger, Anšlavs Eglītis, Yulian Semyonov, Deke Slayton, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, and Freya Stark.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Elmar Klos ranks 369 out of 1,200. Before him are Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Josef Beran (1888), Rudolf Beran (1887), Ivan Mládek (1942), Oskar Nedbal (1874), and Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein (1842). After him are Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz (1686), August von Gödrich (1859), Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Ladislav Adamec (1926), and Ferenc Wesselényi (1605).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Elmar Klos ranks 11. Before him are Karel Zeman (1910), G. W. Pabst (1885), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), and František Čáp (1913). After him are Harun Farocki (1944), Otakar Vávra (1911), Karel Lamač (1897), Karl Freund (1890), František Vláčil (1924), and Ivan Passer (1933).

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Filmography

The Shop on Main Street
Director
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.
Sep 9th 19657.3 / 10
Hudba z Marsu
Director
May 27th 19555.9 / 10
Revolution in Toyland
Director
In WWII Czechoslovakia, an old toymaker incorporates secret messages in his models to fool the Germans. They find him out and he flees. As the Gestapo officer hunts around he is attacked by the toys, who send him packing. Live action and stop motion short by Hermína Týrlová.
May 8th 19476.2 / 10