Jiří Menzel
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Jiří Menzel (1938 – 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter.
His films often combined 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.
Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was banned by the Czechoslovakian 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.
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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" (The Death of Mr. Balthazar) |
| 1966 | Closely Watched Trains | Ostře sledované vlaky | Academy Award winner |
| 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 | ||
| 1983 | Best Wishes From Planet Earth | Srdečný pozdrav ze zeměkoule | |
| 1984 | The Snowdrop Festival | Slavnosti sněženek | |
| 1985 | My Sweet Little Village | Vesničko má středisková | Nominated for Academy Award |
| 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 | |
| 2013 | The Don Juans | ||
TV series
- Hospoda (The Pub) (1996). A sitcom in which Menzel played a psychiatrist, who went to the same Prague pub every day. He had much fun with his friends.
Bibliography
- Škvorecký J. Jiří Menzel and the history of the "Closely Watched Trains". Boulder: East European Monographs, 1982
See also
- "To Make a Comedy is no Fun" a film by Robert Kolinsky
- CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
- List of Czech Academy Award winners and nominees
