---
name: "Ján Kadár"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jan-kadar"
fi1m_id: "jan-kadar"
imdb_id: "nm0434443"
tmdb_id: 544700
wikidata_id: "Q715455"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 April 1918"
died: "1 June 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:44:52.514737+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ján Kadár

## Identity

Ján Kadár

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jan-kadar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jan-kadar
- **IMDb ID:** nm0434443
- **TMDB ID:** 544700
- **Wikidata ID:** Q715455
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Kad%C3%A1r, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715455, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/544700

Director. Born 1 April 1918 in Budapest, Austria – Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary). Died 1 June 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 April 1918, Budapest, Austria – Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary)
- **Died:** 1 June 1979
- **Also known as:** Ян Кадар, János Kadár
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Kad%C3%A1r, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715455, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/544700

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Shop on Main Street*](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md) (90)

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## Biography

Ján Kadár (also credited as János Kadár) was a Slovak film director and screenwriter. Born in Budapest in 1918, he studied at the Film School in Bratislava and began his career making documentaries and features in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. He frequently collaborated with Czech director Elmar Klos.

Kadár and Klos directed and wrote several films together, including *Death Is Called Engelchen* (1963) and *The Shop on Main Street* (1965). The latter, set during the Nazi occupation of Slovakia, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Kadár emigrated to the United States in 1968 and later worked in film and television in the US and Canada, where his credits include *Lies My Father Told Me* (1975). He died in Los Angeles in 1979.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Shop on Main Street* (1965), Fi1m 90, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Freedom Road* (1979), Director
- *The Other Side of Hell* (1978), Director
- *The Blue Hotel* (1977), Director
- *Lies My Father Told Me* (1975), Director
- *Adrift* (1971), Director
- *The Angel Levine* (1970), Director
- *The Shop on Main Street* (1965), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md)
- *Defendant* (1964), Screenplay, Director
- *Three Wishes* (1963), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Death Is Called Engelchen* (1963), Screenplay, Director
- *Zkouška pokračuje* (1960), Screenplay
- *Laterna magika II* (1960), Writer, Director
- *At the Terminus* (1957), Director
- *Spartakiáda* (1956), Director
- *Mladé dny* (1956), Director
- *Hudba z Marsu* (1955), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Matka Riva* (1955), Director
- *Kidnapped* (1953), Director, Writer, Story
- *Katka* (1950), Screenplay, Director
- *Píseň o sletu – II. část – Bratři a sestry* (1949), Field Director
- *Píseň o sletu – I. část – Mládí* (1949), Field Director
- *Nevíte o bytě?* (1947), Screenplay, Assistant Director, Story
- *They Are Personally Responsible for Treason of the National Uprising!* (1946), Director, Screenplay
- *They Are Personally Responsible for Crimes Against Humanity!* (1946), Director, Screenplay
- *Life Grows on Ruins....* (1945), Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Národní umělec 1968: Národní umělec (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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