Eduard Grečner

Born: September 21, 1931 (94 years)

Kopčany, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]

Eduard Grečner (1931, Czechoslovakia) is a director and writer, known for his feature debut Every Week Seven Days (1964), Nylon Moon (1965) and Dragon’s Return (1968). From 1950-1954 he studied at FAMU in Prague. Subsequently, he started working as a playwright, screenwriter and director in the Studia Film Studio at Koliba in Bratislava. He was an assistant director to Štefan Uher on his seminal Slnko v sieti (1963), the first work of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Grečner also acted in several films and made many television films. In the late 1980s, he was the first to chair the Slovak Film Association. In the 1990s, he returned briefly to directing and made two films. In 2018, a monograph about him – written by the Czech film scientist Milan Cyroň – was published.

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Movies Directed (7)

Eduard Grečner

Jaškov sen

Earthly Disturbance

Príbelská vzbura Janka Kráľa

Mŕtve oči

Dragon's Return

Nylon Moon

Every Week Seven Days

The Truth Is All There Is

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

Válek

Jánošík (Vykrádaný superhrdina)

Martin Slivka: The Man Who Planted Trees

The Barnabáš Kos Case

The Boxer and Death

Koliba: Forgotten Glory of Slovak Film Studios

Bratislavské pondelky

Prvá

Golden Sixties

Slnko v sieti

Jaškov sen

Earthly Disturbance

Príbelská vzbura Janka Kráľa

Dragon's Return

Nylon Moon

Every Week Seven Days

Cradle

The Sun in a Net

My z deviatej A

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