The Sun in a Net is a lyrical story about the emotions arising among two young people who pretend cynicism and rejection towards society in an attempt to hide their insecurities, lack of experience and fear of adult life. It is the very first Slovak film to take on the theme of the natural differences of values and social life in urban and rural settings. The film is considered the beginning of the New Wave in Slovak and Czech cinema of the 1960s.

The Sun in a Net is presented on digitally restored print in the festival section Out of the Past on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the film, introduced by the cinematographer of the film Stanislav Szomolányi in person. 

► 01.07. ► 16:30 ► Pupp
► 04.07. ► 18:30 ► Cinema B

Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts - FAMU in Prague (1949-55). He worked as a director at the Studio of Artistic Documentary Films (later renamed Documentary Film Studio) in Bratislava. In March 1960, he joined the Fiction Film Studios and made his directing debut Class Nine A in 1961. At the Fiction Film Studios, Uher started working with author and screenwriter Alfonz Bednár and cinematographer Stanislav Szomolányi.

His films brought him a number of national and international awards. From 1983, he was a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, after 1990 he contributed to the opening of the Film and Television Faculty as the head of the Film and TV Directing Department.

FILMOGRAPHY (selection)

1988: Curator Of The Open - Air Museum
1986: The Sixth Sentence
1982: She Kept Crying For The Moon
1972: Javor and Juliana
1971: If I Had A Gun
1967: Three Daughters
1966: The Wonder-Maid
1964: The Organ
1962: The Sun in a Net
1961: Class Nine A