Beda Batka
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Beda Batka (Czech: Bedřich Baťka; August 21, 1922 – June 6, 1994) was a Czech and American cinematographer and a teacher in the Tisch School of the Arts.[1]
Beda Batka | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bedřich Baťka August 21, 1922 |
| Died | June 6, 1994 (aged 71) |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1963–1980 |
Batka started his career as a camera operator on the movie On the Right Track (1948). In Czechoslovakia he frequently worked with director Jiří Weiss. Batka told Weiss a story that happened at his wife's workplace. Weiss decided to use this story as a basis for his film Ninety Degrees in the Shade. In 1967 Batka was a director of photography for František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarová, which was later voted the best Czech movie of all time.[2] After he emigrated to USA, he taught cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts.[3] Among his students and proteges were Fred Elmes,[4] Barry Sonnenfeld, Bill Pope,[5] and Ken Kelsch.[6] The best known movie he worked on in America was Little Darlings.[7]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Fear | |
| 1963 | The Golden Fern | |
| 1964 | Láska nebeská | Short film |
| 1965 | Ninety Degrees in the Shade | |
| 1966 | Sign of the Cancer | |
| 1966 | Marketa Lazarová | |
| 1967 | Four in a Circle | |
| 1972 | In Pursuit of Treasure | |
| 1979 | The Orphan | |
| 1980 | Little Darlings | |
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