Education
He graduated from the FAMU (Film and television School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague in 1955.
He graduated from the FAMU (Film and television School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague in 1955.
Among his fellow students were future directors Martin Hollý Junior. and Peter Solan who also began to work at the Koliba film studios (then called the Feature Film Studio and the Short Film Studio) in Bratislava after graduation. Uher first worked in the short film division. The Sun in a Net was his second feature film.
His first one was We from Study Group 9-A (My z deviatej A, 1962) about the life of a group of 15-year-old students and their school.
The original music score in The Sun in a Net is by the composer Ilja Zeljenka, who also worked with Uher on We from Study Group 9-A, and went on to work with him on six more films. Uher"s and Szomolányi"s last film She Grazed Horses on Concrete (Pásla kone na betóne, 1982) has remained one of Slovakia"s most popular domestic productions through the 2000s.