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Vojtěch Jasný
Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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 Ca…
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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.
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2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Movie Self
- 2009
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2009
Golden Sixties
TV show Self
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2005
Searching for Ester
Movie Himself
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2002
Broken Silence
TV show Director
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2001
Hell on Earth
Movie Director
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1999
Return to Paradise Lost
Movie Director
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1999
Gladys
Movie Director
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1994
Soloist
Movie Thanks
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1991
Why Havel?
Movie Screenplay
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1990
A Boy And His Car
Movie Thanks
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1989
The Lunch Date
Movie Thanks
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1987
The Great Land of Small
Movie Director
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1985
The Peanut Butter Solution
Movie Writer
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1984
Der blinde Richter
TV show Director
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1984
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
Movie Writer
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1983
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
Movie Director
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1982
We
Movie Director
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1982
Am Strand
Movie Director
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1980
The Woman from Sarajevo
Movie Director
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1979
Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil
Movie Director
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1978
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
Movie Writer
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1978
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
Movie Director
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1976
The Clown
Movie Screenplay
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1976
Attempted Flight
Movie Director
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1975
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
Movie Director
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1974
Der Kulterer
Movie Director
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1972
Der Leuchtturm
Movie Adaptation
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1972
Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
Movie Director
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1971
Dogs and People
Movie Story
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1970
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
Movie Director
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1970
Czech Rhapsody
Movie Director
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1969
All My Good Countrymen
Movie Screenplay
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1968
Jarní vody
Movie Story
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1966
The Pipes
Movie Director
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1965
Magnetické vlny léčí
Movie Director
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1963
When the Cat Comes
Movie Screenplay
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1961
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Movie Director
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1960
I Survived Certain Death
Movie Director
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1958
Desire
Movie Director
