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Quite popular in Central Europe, Slovakian filmmaker Martin Sulik garnered a larger international following toward the end of the 1990s with such highly regarded multiple-award-winning efforts as Zahrada (The Garden) (1995). Sulik earned a degree in film direction at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 1986; his graduation film was the mid-length Staccato. Two years before, Sulik made his film debut as an actor in Vlado Balco's Uhol Pohladu (Angle of Perspective) (1984). Sulik made his debut as a director with Tenderness.