Jan Kadar

After his partnership with Klos dissolved in 1969, Kadar tried his hand in the US and Canada with varying degrees of success. "The Angel Levine" (1970) seemed a somewhat overly sentimental Jewish remake of "It's a Wonderful Life," but both it and Kadar's last feature film, "Lies My Father Told Me" (1975), possessed a certain low-key appeal in their evocation of milieu. Kadar also worked on several TV-movies and served as president of the American Film Institute from 1975 until his death.