Word: elmar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cello competitors-he returned to play, among other pieces, Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, which he performed in 1966. This time he won a rousing ovation and a first-prize gold medal. In what can only be called the year of the strings for America, Elmar Oliveira, 28, of Binghamton, N.Y., shared a gold medal in the violin division with the Soviet Union's Ilya Grubert; Violinist Dylana Jenson, only 17, shared a second-place silver medal, and Daniel Heifetz shared fourth-place violin honors. It was the U.S.'s most impressive showing ever...
...Elmar R. Reiter...
...Elmar Baxter...
...ideal" conditions of the 1960s, freeing Czech directors from commercial constraint and political pressures as well, account in part for the emergence in Czechoslovakia of a dozen first class film directors of international recognition (winning two Oscars for The Shop on Mainstreet, by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, and in 1968 for Mencl's Closely Watched Trains). When the Russian tanks rolled in and put an end to the Dubcek experiment of "socialism with a human face," Czech film directors, as well as many other people, were faced with the following choice: emigration abroad or "internal emigration." For most...
Shop on Main Street, by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, was the first Czechoslovak film to create a bit stir in the United States. The warm reception it received in 1965 helped lead to the Museum of Modern Art's major festival of Czechoslovak films in 1967. Shop on Main street takes place in German-occupied Slovakia in 1942. A tragic story of a shopkeeper unable to fight German antisemitism. it is nevertheless, at times, whimsical and sentimental...