Jan S. Kolár

He directed a big budget historical film St. Wenceslas.

The whole family converted to Christianity and changed their surname to Kolár.

His favorite directors of the silent era were D. W. Griffith and Paul Wegener.

The most important surviving Kolár's films are a crime drama The Poisoned Light, a fantasy horror The Arrival from the Darkness, and a historical film St. Wenceslas.

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