CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018 · Movie
as Self
Vojtěch Jasný
1925-11-30
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Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Vojtěch Jasný (born 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia. An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968. Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) and The New York Film Academy (NYFA). Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat is an allegorical fable about a magical cat that comes to a small Czech town and causes the underlying nature of the townspeople to be revealed. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Also among Jasný's works is Všichni dobří rodáci /All My Good Countrymen (1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968.
Filmography
Crew Credits
Broken Silence
2002 · TV Show
Director
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Hell on Earth
2001 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Return to Paradise Lost
1999 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Gladys
1999 · Movie
Director, Writer
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Soloist
1994 · Movie
Thanks
Why Havel?
1991 · Movie
Screenplay, Director
A Boy And His Car
1990 · Movie
Thanks
The Lunch Date
1989 · Movie
Thanks
The Great Land of Small
1987 · Movie
Director
The Peanut Butter Solution
1985 · Movie
Writer
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Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
1984 · Movie
Director, Writer
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Der blinde Richter
1984 · TV Show
Director
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
1983 · Movie
Director
We
1982 · Movie
Director
Am Strand
1982 · Movie
Director
The Woman from Sarajevo
1980 · Movie
Director
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Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil
1979 · Movie
Director
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
1978 · Movie
Director, Writer
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
1978 · Movie
Writer, Director
The Clown
1976 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Attempted Flight
1976 · Movie
Director, Writer
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Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
1975 · Movie
Director
Der Kulterer
1974 · Movie
Director, Writer
Der Leuchtturm
1972 · Movie
Director, Adaptation
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Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
1972 · Movie
Director
Dogs and People
1971 · Movie
Story, Screenplay
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
1970 · Movie
Director
Czech Rhapsody
1970 · Movie
Director, Story, Screenplay
All My Good Countrymen
1969 · Movie
Screenplay, Director, Story
Jarní vody
1968 · Movie
Story
The Pipes
1966 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Magnetické vlny léčí
1965 · Movie
Director
When the Cat Comes
1963 · Movie
Screenplay, Director, Screenstory
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
1961 · Movie
Director
I Survived Certain Death
1960 · Movie
Director
Desire
1958 · Movie
Director, Story, Screenplay
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September Nights
1957 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Váhavý střelec
1957 · Movie
Story
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Opportunity
1956 · Movie
Screenplay, Director
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Everything Ends Tonight
1955 · Movie
Director
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Stará čínská opera
1954 · Movie
Director, Camera Operator
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Z čínského zápisníku
1954 · Movie
Director, Camera Operator
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Lidé jednoho srdce
1953 · Movie
Screenplay, Director, Camera Operator
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Neobyčejná léta
1952 · Movie
Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Story
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Za život radostný
1951 · Movie
Director, Screenplay, Story
It’s Not Always Cloudy
1950 · Movie
Screenplay, Director of Photography, Director, Editor
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Věděli si rady
1949 · Movie
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Story
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Milos Forman: Portrait
· Movie
Director
