Vladimír Malík

Slovak film director, artist, animator and executive producer. In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, but from the age of seventeen he devoted himself to animated films. He is the director of the animated films Automata (1985), Great Cleaning (1986), the animated television series Why... (1994 - 2000), Tales of King Fiškus (1995 - 1996). In the years 1987 - 1992, he made a series of co-produced animated films about babies – Baby in the Amusement Park (1987), Baby in the Bank, Baby in the Candy Store (1988), Baby in the Factory, Baby in the Cosmodrome (1990), Baby in the Mountains (1992). He received a number of awards for his work and participated with them in film and television festivals at home and abroad. In 1994, Vladimír Malík founded a private production company - Studio Domček. He works as a teacher in the Studio of Animated Creation at the Faculty of Film and Television of the VŠMU in Bratislava.

Born: January 21, 1931 (Age 93) in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]