Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel talks about his Closely Watched Trains (2007)
Born 23 February 1938 (1938-02-23) (age 73)
Prague
Occupation Film director

Jiří Menzel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩]) (born February 23, 1938, Prague) is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.

He became famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1] His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czech government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]

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Filmography as director

Year English title Original title Notes
1960 Prefabricated Houses Domy z panelů School film
1963 Our Mr. Foerster Died Umřel nám pan Foerster School film
1965 Concert '65 Koncert 65 Short documentary
1965 Crime at the Girls School Zločin v dívčí škole Segment "Crime at the Girls School"
1966 Pearls of the Deep Perličky na dně Segment "Smrt pana Baltazara"
1966 Closely Watched Trains Ostře sledované vlaky
1968 Crime in a Music Hall Zločin v šantánu
1968 Capricious Summer Rozmarné léto
1969 Larks on a String Skřivánci na niti Banned and not released until 1990
1974 Altered Landscapes Proměny krajiny Short documentary
1974 Who Looks for Gold? Kdo hledá zlaté dno
1976 Seclusion Near a Forest Na samotě u lesa
1978 Those Wonderful Movie Cranks Báječní muži s klikou
1980 Cutting It Short Postřižiny
1981 Tři v tom TV theatre
1982 Krasosmutnění TV film
Dr. Johann Faust, Praha II., Karlovo nám. 40 TV theatre
1984 The Snowdrop Festival Slavnosti sněženek
1985 My Sweet Little Village Vesničko má středisková
1986 Chocolate Cop Die Schokoladenschnüffler
1989 End of Old Times Konec starých časů
1981 Audience TV film
1991 Beggar's Opera Žebrácká opera
1993 Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina
1998 Jacobowski a plukovník TV film
2002 Ten Minutes Older Segment "One Moment"
2006 I Served the King of England Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále

TV series

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/40th-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-11-12. 
  2. ^ "Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1990/03_preistr_ger_1990/03_Preistraeger_1990.html. Retrieved 2011-03-20. 
  3. ^ "Berlinale: Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/04_jury_1987/04_Jury_1987.html. Retrieved 2011-02-27. 

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Films directed by Jiří Menzel
  • Complete list
  • Submissions
  • (1947–1960)
  • (1961–1980)
  • (1981–2000)
  • (2001–2020)
Czech Lion for Best Director

Jan Hřebejk (1993) • Milan Šteindler (1994) • Martin Šulík (1995) • Jan Svěrák (1996) • Petr Zelenka (1997) • Vladimír Michálek (1998) • Saša Gedeon (1999) • Jan Hřebejk (2000) • Jan Svěrák (2001) • Petr Zelenka (2002) • Vladimír Morávek (2003) • Jan Hřebejk (2004) • Bohdan Sláma (2005) • Jiří Menzel (2006) • Jan Svěrák (2007) • Petr Zelenka (2008) • Marek Najbrt (2009) • Radim Špaček (2010)