He belongs to the first Slovak student at the Prague FAMU. He begun with film directing and his long-term illness redirected him towards screen writing. After return to Slovakia he was a dramatist and assistant film director to Štefan Uher, among others to his Sun in a Net (Slunko v sieti, 1962), which de facto opened the way to the Czechoslovak new wave. As man of letters and a critic, he had maintained a sharply defined concept of an intellectual film, and achieved a real directorial success with his third film, an adaptation of a classic novel by Dobroslav Chrobák The Return of Dragon (Drak se vracia, 1967). During normalization he was relegated to dubbing, to feature film he returned twice in the nineties, again with his own adaptations modeled after D.H. Lawrence and Dobroslav Chrobák.