Elmar Klos

{{Short description|Czech film director}}

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|image = Elmar Klos (1966).jpg

|caption = Elmar Klos (1966)

|name = Elmar Klos

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|1|26|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1993|7|19|1910|1|26|df=yes}}

|death_place = Prague, Czech Republic

|resting_place = Vyšehrad Cemetery

}}

Elmar Klos (26 January 1910 – 19 July 1993){{cite web |title=Elmar Klos|url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/f60488b72fae4337b9ccad7b147ad14b |website=filmportal.de|access-date=6 June 2022 |language=de}} was a Czech film director. He collaborated for 17 years with his Slovak colleague Ján Kadár and with him won the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for the film The Shop on Main Street.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1966|title=The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners|access-date=2011-11-06|work=oscars.org}}

They directed the 1963 film Death Is Called Engelchen, which entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival and won a Golden Prize.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1963 |title=3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963) |access-date=2012-12-01 |work=MIFF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210707/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1963 |archive-date=16 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}