Known for Camera
Milan Peter Sova (September 25, 1944 – August 27, 2020) was a Czech-born American cinematographer.
Born
September 25, 1944
Died
August 27, 2020 (age 75)
Birthplace
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Filmography
34 films, 3 shows


Push
2009 · 1h 51m
country: Canada
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.


The Strangers
2008 · 1h 26m
country: United States
After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.


Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · 1h 50m
country: Canada
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.


Wicker Park
2004 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.


The Reckoning
2004 · 1h 52m
country: Spain
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.


Doctor Sleep
2002 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.


Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000 · 2h 58m
country: United States
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.


The Proposition
1998 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.


Donnie Brasco
1997 · 2h 7m
country: United States
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.


Sgt. Bilko
1996 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Sergeant Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.


Feast of July
1995 · 1h 56m
country: United Kingdom
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.


Fatherland
1994 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.


Jimmy Hollywood
1994 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl friend Lorraine is getting fed up with the whole situation.


Double Jeopardy
1992 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When his lover is accused of murder, a Salt Lake City family man is her eyewitness and his wife is her attorney.


Straight Talk
1992 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.


Bed & Breakfast
1991 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Life changes for three women who run a failing hotel when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.


Late for Dinner
1991 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).


Sing
1989 · 1h 38m
country: United States
When a volatile young street tough with a talent for singing and dancing is tapped by the high school music teacher to lead the upcoming senior "Sing," he is forced to come to terms with his defiant self-destructive lifestyle and his growing attraction to his co-star.


Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · 2h 1m
country: United States
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.


Tin Men
1987 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.


Courtship
1987 · 1h 24m
country: United States
In 1915, Elizabeth has fallen in love with Horace Robedaux, a young man her father condemns as a "wild boy." No matter how strict and protective, her parents cannot deter their daughter's growing independence.


A Doctor's Story
1984 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.


Diner
1982 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.


Nurse
1980 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.


Barn Burning
1980 · 41m
country: United States
Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.


Rockers
1979 · 1h 40m
country: Jamaica
Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston, plans to make money selling records. After his prized motorcycle is stolen, his plans fall through and he's forced to adapt.


The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
1979 · 30m
country: United States
Upset by rumors that Halloween may end, Dracula calls his mild-mannered monsters together and delivers an ultimatum - either regain their frightening image, or leave his Transylvania castle forever.


Samba of the Creation of the World
1979 · 1h 23m
country: Brazil
Three mythical African princesses tell how Olorum, lord of the Universe, has created the Earth, according to the Nagô tradition.


Summer of My German Soldier
1978 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret place in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him, she ends up harboring him from his captors and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking by helping him, but in his company, she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.


Woody Allen: An American Comedy
1977 · 29m
country: United States
Woody Allen talks about his career and his creative process with excerpts from some of his movies


Short Eyes
1977 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.


Soldier's Home
1977 · 42m
country: United States
Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pressures him to rejoin society.


Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975 · 43m
country: United States
Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with what his life would have been, had he not left America.