Vladimír Slavínský

Czech film director

Vladimír Slavínský

Born	(1890-09-26)26 September 1890 Dolní Štěpánice, Royal Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	16 August 1949(1949-08-16) (aged 58) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Other names	Otto Pittermann
Occupation(s)	Film director Screenwriter Actor
Years active	1919–1949
Spouse	Lída Slavínská

Vladimír Slavínský (26 September 1890 – 16 August 1949) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor.^[1]

Life

Vladimír Slavínský was born Otakar Vladimír Pitrman in Dolní Štěpánice, on September 26, 1890. Since his youth he acted in amateur theatres while working as a typesetter.^[1] In 1912 he wrote his first two screenplays. After the World War I he co-founded a production company Pojafilm with Alois Jalovec and started directing.^[1] He directed mostly sentimental dramas and comedy films, which were very commercially successful at the time. He died in Prague on August 16, 1949.^[2]

Selected filmography

Director

The Son of the Mountains (1925)
The Little Window (1933)
Three Men in the Snow (1936)
Delightful Story (1936)
The Minister's Girlfriend (1940)
Lawyer of the Poor (1941)
Chalk and Cheese (1941)
Fish Out of Water (1942)
Seine beste Rolle (1944), Nazi German film
Just Getting Started (1946)
The Last of the Mohicans (1947)
No Surgery Hours Today (1948)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Vladimír Slavínský". Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
^ "Vladimír Slavínský". Filmový přehled. NFA. Retrieved 2020-02-26.