Peter Kerekeš

Slovakia

Biography

Peter Kerekes (born in 1973 in Košice, Slovakia) studied film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 1991 – 1998. There he continued to lecture on the given subject. Together with director Dušan Hanák, he participated in founding the atelier of fiction and documentary film. Although he wanted to direct fiction films, which he also studied, since his first documentary about the Slovak poet Erik Groch, his interest in this form of film expression prevailed. Made in the production of Austrian director and producer Georg Misch, his latest feature-length documentary Ako sa varia dejiny/ Cooking History was awarded at numerous international festivals (e.g. Hot Docs, Leipzig) and nominated for the prestigious European Award Arte 2009.

Filmography:

Člověk o knihe, kniha o člověku (16´, SK, 1994)
Balog Jozsef, Príbennik 66 (SK, 1996)
O troch dňoch v Jasovskom kláštore (SK, 1996)
Ladomírske morytáty a legendy (54´, SK, 1998)
Zuzana od 8.00 do 17.00 (SK, 2000)
66 sezón (80´, SK/CZ, 2003)
Přes hranice/ Über die Grenze - Fünf Ansichten von Nachbarn/ Across the Border: Five Views from Neighbours (131´, Austria, 2004) - segment director
Pomník, ktorý nebol (26´, SK, 2005)
Ako sa varia dejiny/ Cooking History (88´, CZ/SK/Austria, 2008)
Brno 1969 (26´, CZ, 2009)

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66 Seasons

66 Sezón (Orig.) / 2003 / Slovakia / 86 min

A document about a swimming pool in the city of Kosice, the place where, according to the filmmakers´s slogan, "history used to go to bath".

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A bonus chapter from Cooking History

Bonusová kapitola z Ako sa varia dejiny (Orig.) / 2009 / Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia / 10 min

Watch a BONUS chapter from the film Cooking History for FREE. A story of Serbian army cook Novic Stankovič – Šapoň who baked the biggest Pljeskavica in the world and died as a volunteer in the war in Kosovo in 1999.

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Across the Border

Über die Grenze (Orig.) / 2004 / Austria / 131 min

Five directors from Central Europe contribute to making an international film reflecting a unique moment of forming of a new European community.

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Cooking History

Jak se vaří dějiny (Orig.) / 2009 / Czech Republic / 90 min

A documentary film about army cooks and how the everyday needs of thousands of armed stomachs affect the victories and defeats of statesmen.

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Morytats and Legends of Ladomirova

Ladomírske morytáty a legendy (Orig.) / 1998 / Slovakia / 56 min

There is no truth about past, it is only the imperfection of our mind that creates out of reality, sanguinary edifying stories - morytates and legends.

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COOKING HISTORY

A documentary film about army cooks and how the everyday needs of thousands of armed stomachs affect the victories and defeats of statesmen. About the field kitchen as a model of a world where food preparation becomes a fight strategy; a fight for great ideals standing on strong legs of the kitchen table. The film is based on eleven recipes of the cooks since the Second World War till the war in Tchechenia; from France through the Balkans to Russia.

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