The first feature film Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos were able to make in five years showed a decided return to classical black-and-white filmmaking with barely a trace of Kadár 's more experimental work at the '' Laterna magika '' . A gradual relaxation of communist control in Czechoslovakia , whose first signs came from Slovakia , enabled the Bratislava journalist and writer Ladislav Mňačko to publish his novel '' Death Is Called Engelchen '' ( '' Smrť sa volá Engelchen '' , 1959 ) and Kadár and Klos to reach for it from Prague after their suspension was over . The novel and their film '' Death is Called Engelchen '' ( , , 1963 ) spotlighted a new take on the massive pro-democratic Slovak revolt of 1944 that had previously been portrayed only as invariably glorious . It showed some of its aspects that brought about human tragedy . The film was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize . The directors ' next film , '' Accused '' aka '' Defendant '' ( '' Obžalovaný '' , 1964 ) , rehashed the propagandist structures of the earlier Socialist-Realist filmmaking , but turned them around by replacing the content mandated in the 1950s with committed social criticism that was quickly becoming one of the hallmarks of Slovak and Czech cinema of the 1960s
3rd Moscow International Film Festival
3rd Moscow International Film Festival
Ján Kadár