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Juraj Herz (1934–2018) – Slovak director and actor born in Kežmarok; Juraj Jakubisko (1938–2023) – director (sometimes nicknamed Slovak Fellini) Ján Kadár (1918–1979) – director; Dušan Rapoš (1953) – Slovak director; Ivan Reitman (1946) – probably the most prominent film director and producer born in Slovakia
Ľuba Lesná (born 1954), contemporary Slovak investigative journalist, filmmaker, novelist, and playwright. Andrea Letanovská (born 1969), Slovak physician and politician. Lukáš Letenay (born 2001), Slovak football player. Ivan Lexa (born 1961), Slovak Secret Service from 1995 to 1998. [9] [10] Miriam Lexmann (born 1972), Slovak politician.
Benjamin Orr, musician (Rusyn mother from present day Kojšov, Slovakia and Ukrainian father) [4] Emil Sitka – actor, parents were Slovak immigrants; Robert Urich – actor; Katarina Van Derham – model, actress, and publisher; Jon Voight – actor (paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Košice; paternal grandmother was also of ...
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Pavol Paška, Speaker of the National Council of Slovakia (2006-2010, 2012-2014) Róbert Petrovický, Slovak ice hockey and former NHL player, born in Košice; István Pongrácz, martyr killed by George I Rákóczi's soldiers in 1619; Jozef Psotka, mountaineer, born in Košice
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Ivan Reitman was born in the town of Komárno, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), on October 27, 1946, the son of Klara (Raab) and Ladislav "Leslie" Reitman. [1] Both of Reitman's parents were Hungarian Jews; his mother survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, and his father was an underground resistance fighter.
The Czech feature The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1968), Slovak-born Juraj Herz's grotesque black comedy about the social context of the Final Solution, is a cult film in both Czechia and Slovakia and has an increasing reputation internationally. Herz is a concentration camp survivor, but he never made a film directly addressing that experience.