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Rudolf Urc was born on the 12th of June 1937. After graduation from dramaturgy studies at Prague’s FAMU (1959) he had worked as chief dramaturgist in the News and Short Films Studio in Bratislava, since 1971 as dramaturgist and director of animated films in that studio. In 1993 he laid foundations of the Department of Animation at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, became the first head of this department and professor. He had also lectured at the University of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín, Czech Republic. He contributed to establishment and formation of the non-competitive Biennial of Animation Bratislava (BAB) festival.
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Rudolf Urc is a dramaturgist, publicist, director, pedagogue. Author of documentary films, prevailingly with historic subjects. Urc directed many acclaimed animated productions – The Ploughman and the Giants (1975), Minutes at the Reception Desk (1978), Grade One (1984). He also directed the TV series Dada and Dodo (1988), Tales from the Nightgown (1990), and co-directed The Fairytales from Bratislava. He has published biographies of numerous film-makers, written many essays and analytical texts and in 1980 his Animated Film came out – the first book of its kind in Slovakia. He also wrote The Three Veterans Behind the Camera (1999), a biography of V.Kubal, V.Kubenko and L.Kudelka and some other author’s profiles as well as the textbook The Chapters from the World History of Animated Film.