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Beda Batka (August 21, 1922 – June 6, 1994) was a Czech and American cinematographer and a teacher in the Tisch School of the Arts. 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. After he emigrated to USA, he taught cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts. Among his students were Barry Sonnenfeld, Bill Pope, and the late Ken Kelsch. The best known movie he worked on in America was Little Darlings.
Release Date | Title | Job | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
March 21st, 1980 | Little Darlings | Director of Photography | 6.5 | |
February 2nd, 1968 | Čtyři v kruhu | Director of Photography | 9 | |
November 24th, 1967 | Marketa Lazarová | Director of Photography | 7.8 | |
May 5th, 1967 | Sign of the Cancer | Director of Photography | 4.6 | |
October 1st, 1965 | 90° in the Shade | Director of Photography | 5.7 | |
January 1st, 1964 | Zajatci tmy | Director of Photography | TBD | |
January 1st, 1964 | Láska nebeská | Director of Photography | TBD | |
August 29th, 1963 | The Golden Fern | Director of Photography | 6.8 | |
January 1st, 1963 | Promiňte, omyl! | Director of Photography | TBD | |
April 13th, 1962 | The Coward | Camera Operator | 7.4 | |
July 28th, 1961 | Where an Alibi Is Not Everything | Camera Operator | 7.5 | |
April 21st, 1961 | Policejní hodina | Assistant Camera | 7 | |
May 13th, 1960 | Prázdniny v oblacích | Assistant Camera | 10 | |
November 20th, 1959 | A 105 p.c. Alibi | Assistant Camera | 8.2 | |
March 20th, 1959 | Hry a sny | Assistant Camera | 8.3 | |
June 27th, 1958 | Kasaři | Assistant Camera | 4.4 | |
January 1st, 1958 | Bomba | Assistant Camera | 4.5 | |
March 15th, 1957 | Johnny's Journey | Assistant Camera | 7 | |
December 21st, 1956 | Sons of the Mountains | Assistant Camera | 9 | |
March 14th, 1952 | Štika v rybníce | Assistant Camera | 7.5 | |
January 1st, 1951 | Victorious Wings | Assistant Camera | 6.3 | |
January 7th, 1949 | Na dobré stopě | Assistant Camera | 8.5 |