Person

Bedřich Baťka

Camera · 1922–1994 · Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

Biography

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.

Known for

Filmography

1980Little DarlingsDirector of Photography
1968Čtyři v kruhuDirector of Photography
1967Marketa LazarováDirector of Photography
1967Sign of the CancerDirector of Photography
196590° in the ShadeDirector of Photography
1964FearDirector
1964Zajatci tmyDirector of Photography
1964Láska nebeskáDirector of Photography
1963The Golden FernDirector of Photography
1963Promiňte, omyl!Director of Photography
1962The CowardCamera Operator
1961Where an Alibi Is Not EverythingCamera Operator
1961Policejní hodinaAssistant Camera
1960Prázdniny v oblacíchAssistant Camera
1959A 105 p.c. AlibiAssistant Camera
1959Hry a snyAssistant Camera
1958KasařiAssistant Camera
1958BombaAssistant Camera
1957Johnny's JourneyAssistant Camera
1956Sons of the MountainsAssistant Camera
1952Štika v rybníceAssistant Camera
1951Victorious WingsAssistant Camera
1949Na dobré stopěAssistant Camera

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