Alfonz Bednár

Alfonz Bednár

1914-10-13
75 (1989-11-09)
Neporadza, Slovakia

Writer, screenwriter, and translator.

Neporadza, Slovakia

Writer, screenwriter, and translator.

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The Sun in a Net 1963 (7.4)

Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
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The Organ 1965 (5.5)

A young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He find himself in conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values.
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Three Daughters 1968 (7.2)

A classical ballad motif about an aging father and his three daughters is quite unusually here set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia of the 1950s. After having been expropriated, the former landowner Majda seeks refuge with his three daughters whom he had sent to a convent a long time ago. But only the youngest one is able to forgive him and she is willing to take care of him despite the threat of expulsion from the order.