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Jiří Menzel
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm an…
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Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was 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. 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 controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially 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. 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. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.
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2020
Brouk v hlavě
Movie Stage Director
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2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Movie Self
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2018
The Interpreter
Movie Ali Ungár
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2018
More Than Words
TV show Self
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2016
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
Movie Self
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2016
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
Movie Self
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2014
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
Movie self
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2014
Milan Čorba
Movie
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2013
The Don Juans
Movie Director
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2012
Signál
Movie Prokeš
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2012
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
Movie Self
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2011
Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions
Movie Self
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2009
Vyprávěj
TV show Professor Sládeček
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2009
Operation Dunaj
Movie Oskar Hazuka
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2009
Setkání v Praze, s vraždou
Movie Hořejší
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2009
Golden Sixties
TV show Self
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2007
Teddy Bear
Movie Romanuv otec
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2007
I Served the King of England
Movie Director
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2006
Slnko v sieti
TV show
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2006
A bárány utolsó megkísértése
Movie Leopold Blum
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2006
Zimní víla
Movie Komorí
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2005
Pocta V+W
Movie Self
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2004
Daddy
Movie Self
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2002
The Sunken Cemetery
Movie Doktor Javorski
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2002
Útek do Budína
Movie hrabě
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2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Movie Director
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2002
One Moment
Movie Director
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2001
As Rita Hayworth's Grandfather Loved
Movie Pfarrer
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2000
Příběhy slavných
TV show Self
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2000
Krásný ztráty
TV show Self
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1999
All My Loved Ones
Movie Stein
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1997
Pražský písničkář
TV show
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1996
Hospoda
TV show MUDr. Prášek - psychiatr
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1996
Franciska vasárnapjai
Movie államtitkár
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1996
Draculův švagr
TV show
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1995
Vengeance Is Mine
Movie Director
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1995
Too Loud A Solitude
Movie Professor
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1995
How to Deserve a Princess
Movie dvorní malíř
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1995
Joint Venture
Movie Prof. Adamec
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