Bedřich Baťka
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- August 21, 1922
- Died
- June 6, 1994 (aged 71)
- Birthplace
- 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
Little Darlings
Movie · Director of Photography
Čtyři v kruhu
Movie · Director of Photography
Marketa Lazarová
Movie · Director of Photography
Sign of the Cancer
Movie · Director of Photography
90° in the Shade
Movie · Director of Photography
Zajatci tmy
Movie · Director of Photography
Láska nebeská
Movie · Director of Photography
Fear
Movie · Director of Photography
The Golden Fern
Movie · Director of Photography
Promiňte, omyl!
Movie · Director of Photography
The Coward
Movie · Camera Operator
Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
Movie · Camera Operator
Policejní hodina
Movie · Assistant Camera
Prázdniny v oblacích
Movie · Assistant Camera
Hry a sny
Movie · Assistant Camera
A 105 p.c. Alibi
Movie · Assistant Camera
Bomba
Movie · Assistant Camera
Kasaři
Movie · Assistant Camera
Johnny's Journey
Movie · Assistant Camera
Sons of the Mountains
Movie · Assistant Camera
Štika v rybníce
Movie · Assistant Camera
Victorious Wings
Movie · Assistant Camera
Na dobré stopě
Movie · Assistant Camera