Matej Mináč (born 1 April 1961) is a Slovak film director. Mináč has directed three films about Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton who organized the rescue of 669 Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport: the drama All My Loved Ones (1999) (the role of Winton was played by Rupert Graves), the documentary The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002), which won an Emmy Award, the documentary with feature re-enactments Nicky's Family (2011) and Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton (2016). Mináč also made a full-length documentary with feature re-enactments Through the Eyes of the Photographer (2015) on the popular Slovak photographer Zuzana Minacova, his mother. His brother is mathematician Ján Mináč.

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