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Eduard Grečner

Eduard Grečner

Writer · b. 1931 · 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.

Movies6

  • Movie1.0

    Válek

    2018 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Boxer a smrť

    The Boxer and Death

    1963 · 13 votes

  • Movie

    Koliba: zabudnutá sláva slovenských filmových ateliérov

    Koliba: Forgotten Glory of Slovak Film Studios

  • Movie

    Martin Slivka – „...muž, ktorý sadil stromy“

    Martin Slivka: The Man Who Planted Trees

    2007

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie7.0

    Prípad Barnabáš Kos

    The Barnabáš Kos Case

    1965 · 4 votes

Series1

  • TV

    Zlatá šedesátá

    Golden Sixties

    2009