The Sun in a Net

For the Slovak film awards, see Sun in a Net Awards.
The Sun in a Net
Directed byŠtefan Uher
Written byShort stories:
Alfonz Bednár
Screenplay:
Alfonz Bednár
StarringMarián Bielik
Jana Beláková
Eliška Nosáľová
Ľubo Roman
CinematographyStanislav Szomolányi
Edited byBedřich Voděrka
Music byIlja Zeljenka
Release date
  • 15 February 1963 (1963-02-15)
Running time
90 min
CountriesSlovakia
Czechoslovakia
LanguageSlovak

The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti, also translated as Sunshine in a net or Catching the sun in a net[1]) is a 1963 film that became a key film in the development of Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema from the mandated Socialist-Realist filmmaking of the repressive 1950s towards the Czechoslovak/Czech New Wave and socially critical or experimental films of the 1960s marked by a gradual relaxation of communist control. The Sun in a Net received multiple votes in a wide survey of Czech and Slovak film academics and critics in the late 1990s asking them for their lists of the 10 best films in the history of filmmaking in the former Czechoslovakia.

  1. ^ Jaroslav Boček, Šaska Batošková, Luboš Bartošek, Jan Hořejši and Jiři Havelka: "Modern Czechoslovak film", 1965. Editor: Stanislav Zvoníček, published in cooperation with the Czechoslovak Film Institute. ARTIA