Elmar Klos
Elmar Klos (26 January 1910 – 19 July 1993) was a Czech film director. He collaborated for 17 years with his Slovak colleague Ján Kadár and with him won the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for the film The Shop on Main Street. They directed the 1963 film Death Is Called Engelchen, which entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival and won a Golden Prize.
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- 1910-01-26 · Brno, Moravia, AustriaHungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
- Died
- 1993-07-19
Known for
- The Shop on Main Street (1965) — Director
- Hudba z Marsu (1955) — Director
- Death Is Called Engelchen (1963) — Screenplay
- Revolution in Toyland (1947) — Story
- Defendant (1964)
- The Loves of Kačenka Strnadová (1926) — Screenplay
- Three Wishes (1963) — Director
- The Lovers of an Old Criminal (1927) — Screenplay
- Adrift (1971) — Director
- At the Terminus (1957) — Director
- Ferda the Ant (1944) — Screenplay
- Kidnapped (1953) — Director
- A Dead Man among the Living (1947) — Screenplay
- Nemocný bílý slon (1990)
- CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel (2018) — Self
- Before Graduation (1932)