Like Stefan Uher and Elo Havatta, Eduard Grecner was also one of the founders of the Slovak New Wave films in the 1960s. His three films, "Seven Days [Expand All]
Like Stefan Uher and Elo Havatta, Eduard Grecner was also one of the founders of the Slovak New Wave films in the 1960s. His three films, "Seven Days a Week" (1964), "Nihon Moon" (1965), and this "The Return of Drak", are all representative works of Slovak New Wave cinema. This black-and-white film with a unique narrative method and a distinct streamconsciousness style even indirectly influenced the two films "The Liar" and "Eden and After" shot by French director Grier in the Czech Republic later on. A special place in the development of feature films is reserved for Eduard Grecner, the creator of just one good film, Dragon Returns (Drak sa vracia, 1967), titled after the nickname of the lead character. After his initial work with Uher, Grecner made his mark as a proponent of the so-called intellectual film, the antithesis of the sociologically, or rather, socially critical film. Grecner's great ro[Collapse]
