Jiří Menzel

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Jiří Menzel (born February 23, 1938 in Prague), is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and scriptwriter.

He became famous in 1967, when his first feature film Closely Watched Trains (based on the novel by Hrabal) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He was nominated again in the same category in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village.

His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm. Some of them are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.

[edit] Filmography

• Dalších deset minut II. (2002)
• Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina (1994)
• Žebrácká opera (Beggar's Opera) (1990)
• Konec starých časů (End of Old Times) (1989)
• Vesničko má středisková (My Sweet Little Village) (1985)
• Slavnosti sněženek (1983)
• Postřižiny (1980)
• Báječní muži s klikou (1978)
• Na samotě u lesa (1976)
• Kdo hledá zlaté dno (1974)
• Skřivánci na niti (Larks on a String) (1969)
• Rozmarné léto (1968)
• Zločin v šantánu (1968)
• Ostře sledované vlaky (Closely Watched Trains) (1966)
• Zločin v dívčí škole (1965)
• Perličky na dně (1965)
• Umřel nám pan Foerster (1963)