Jiří Menzel
Naissance : 23/02/1938
Praha, Tchécoslovaquie
Décès : 05/09/2020
(82 ans)
Praha, Praha, Hlavní město Praha, Tchéquie
Biographie
One of the best-known and most successful Czech directors, Jiří Menzel fell in love with the films of Chaplin, Clair, Renoir and others while still in primary school. Yet it was theatre he first chose to study, and it was only after he failed to get into drama school that he was awarded a place at FAMU (Prague Film Academy) where he was a student from 1958 to 1962. It was a particularly good year (it included among others Vera Chytilová and Evald Schorm), and is widely regarded as the driving force behind the Czech New Wave. In 1965, together with Jan Němec, Věra Chytilová, Evald Schorm and Jaromil Jireš, he directed “Pearls on the Bottom”, a feature made up of several different stories (FIPRESCI award, Locarno Film Festival). His first solo full-length feature, “Closely Watched Trains” (1966), based on a story by Bohumil Hrabal, won him a number of awards, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
With the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces in 1968 and the period of so-called ‘normaLízation’ that followed, he was one of the first directors to be barred from filmmaking. The communists were particularly outraged by his next Hrabal adaptation “Larks on a String” (1969) – an exposé of the true nature of ‘people’s democracy’ in fifties’ Czechoslovakia. (The film was not shown until 1990 when, among other awards, it won the Golden Bear at Berlin). In the midseventies he returned to directing with “Who Seeks a Handful of Gold” (1974), a depiction of working-class life. But it was the chance to adapt two other Hrabal works for the screen – “Cutting it Short” (1980, special prize at the Venice Film Festival) and “Snowdrop Festival” (1983) that finally brought him real creative freedom.
In 1986 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for “My Sweet Little Village” (1985). Menzel’s last film to date, is an adaptation of Vladimir Voynovitch’s bestselling novel “The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin” (1993). Since then he has worked exclusively in the theatre, in Prague’s Cinoherní klub (Drama Club), Divadlo na zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade), Divadlo na Vinohradech (Vineyards Theatre), and as guest director on several leading European stages, among them the Comédie-Francaise in Paris. Other full length features directed by Menzel include “Capricious Summer” (1967, Grand Prix, Karlovy Vary), “Seclusion Near the Forest” (1976, Silver Hugo, Chicago; FIPRESCI special prize, Mannheim; CIC prize, San Sebastian), “The End of the Old Times” (1989, Best Director and Best Film awards, Los Angeles; Best Director, Montreal, Las Vegas and Melbourne) and “The Beggar’s Opera” (1991, Special Prize, Chicago).
Among Menzel’s notable appearances as an actor are his roles in “The Accused” (1964) which won its joint directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Kloss an Academy Award, “The Body-Burner” (1968, dir. Juraj Herz), “30 Virgins and Pythagoras” (1973, dir. Pavel Hobl), “The Apple Game” (1976, dir. Vera Chytilová), “Greetings from Planet Earth” (1982, dir. Oldrich Lipsky), “The Vampire of Ferato” (1982, dir. Juraj Herz), “The Gentle Barbarian” (1989, dir. Petr Koliha), “Martha and I” (1990, dir. Jiří Weiss), “La Petite Apocalypse” (1992, dir. Costa-Gavras) and “Escape to Budin” (2002, dir. Miloslav Luther). Jirí Menzel is a member of The Czech Film and Television Academy, The European Film Academy and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has received many prestigious awards, among them the French order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and the Akira Kurosawa Prize for Lifetime’s Achievement at the San Francisco Film Festival.
Sony Pictures Classics
Réalisateur
Films | |
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2013 |
Donšajni |
2006 |
Moi qui ai servi le roi d'Angleterre |
2002 |
Ten Minutes Older - The Cello |
1993 |
Les Aventures d'Ivan Tchonkine |
1991 |
Žebrácká opera |
1989 |
Konec starých časů |
1985 |
Die Schokoladenschnüffler |
Mon cher petit Village |
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1983 |
Les Fêtes des perce-neige |
1982 |
Krasosmutnění (téléfilm) |
1980 |
Une blonde émoustillante |
1978 |
Báječní muži s klikou |
1976 |
A l'orée de la forêt |
1974 |
Kdo hledá zlaté dno |
1969 |
Alouettes, le fil à la patte |
1968 |
Zločin v šantánu |
1967 |
Un été capricieux |
1966 |
Trains étroitement surveillés |
1965 |
Les Petites Perles au fond de l’eau |
Zločin v dívčí škole |
Documentaires | |
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2011 |
Inventura Febia (série) |
Zvláštní světy Hrabala a Fukse (E45) |
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2010 |
Vaše moře, naše moře (téléfilm) |
1993 |
GEN - Galerie elity národa (série) |
1983 |
Capitali culturali d'Europa (série) |
1974 |
Proměny krajiny |
1965 |
Koncert 65 |
1961 |
FAMU Žurnál: První občasník (film étudiant) |
1959 |
Domy z panelů (film étudiant) |
Émissions | |
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1969 |
Plakala panna, plakala |
Pièces de théâtre filmée | |
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2020 |
Brouk v hlavě |
2002 |
Noc v synagoze |
Pré |
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1998 |
Jacobowski a plukovník |
1990 |
Audience |
1982 |
Dr. Johann Faust, Praha II., Karlovo nám. 40 |
1981 |
Tři v tom |
1971 |
Mandragora |
Courts métrages | |
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1963 |
Umřel nám pan Foerster (film étudiant) |
Scénariste
Films | |
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2013 |
Donšajni |
2006 |
Moi qui ai servi le roi d'Angleterre |
2002 |
Ten Minutes Older - The Cello |
1991 |
Žebrácká opera |
1989 |
Konec starých časů |
1983 |
Les Fêtes des perce-neige |
1980 |
Une blonde émoustillante |
1978 |
Báječní muži s klikou |
1974 |
Kdo hledá zlaté dno |
1969 |
Alouettes, le fil à la patte |
1968 |
Zločin v šantánu |
1967 |
Un été capricieux |
1966 |
Trains étroitement surveillés |
1965 |
Les Petites Perles au fond de l’eau |
Zločin v dívčí škole |
Documentaires | |
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2011 |
Inventura Febia (série) |
Zvláštní světy Hrabala a Fukse (E45) |
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1993 |
GEN - Galerie elity národa (série) |
1974 |
Proměny krajiny |
1965 |
Koncert 65 |
1959 |
Domy z panelů (film étudiant) |
Courts métrages | |
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1963 |
Umřel nám pan Foerster (film étudiant) |
Acteur
Séries | ||
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2014 |
Až po uši |
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Epizoda 5 (S01E05) |
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2009 |
Vyprávěj |
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Velká očekávání (S01E08) |
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1. Máj (S01E04) |
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2003 |
Útěk do Budína |
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Epizoda 5 (E05) |
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1997 |
Hospoda |
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Pes (S02E26) |
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Veselka (S02E25) |
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Kukátko (S02E24) |
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plus d'épisodes (21) | ||
Pražský písničkář |
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Vše pro republiku (E03) |
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Rozpad monarchie (E02) |
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Láska a ideály (E01) |
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1996 |
Draculův švagr |
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Hospoda |
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Schůze (S01E26) |
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Dlužník (S01E25) |
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Bomba (S01E24) |
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plus d'épisodes (19) | ||
1991 |
Pražský student |
Pièces de théâtre filmée | |
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2020 |
Brouk v hlavě |
1998 |
Jacobowski a plukovník |
Courts métrages | |
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1965 |
Motýl (film étudiant) |
1964 |
Dobrá rada je nad zlato |
Hory hory |
Invité
Émissions | |
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2017 |
Příběhy filmů |
Slavná filmová místa |
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2016 |
Zlaté časy - i.a. |
2014 |
Česká hlava 2014 |
2011 |
Všechno nejlepší |
2010 |
Komici na jedničku |
Rozmarná léta českého filmu |
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Show Jana Krause |
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2008 |
Hvězdný reportér |
2007 |
Takí sme boli |
2006 |
Před půlnocí |
2005 |
Pocta Jiřímu Voskovcovi |
Pocta V+W |
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Rozmarné léto s Rudolfem Hrušínským |
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2003 |
Volejte Novu |
2002 |
Tváře českého filmu |
2000 |
Benefice |
Krásný ztráty |
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1999 |
Banánové rybičky |
My rádi jíme |
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1998 |
Na plovárně |
Nikdo není dokonalý |
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XXL |
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1997 |
Ve vedlejší roli Spejbl a Hurvínek |
1995 |
Tak neváhej a toč – speciál! |
1994 |
Televizní noviny |
Český bodyguard |
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1992 |
Kufr |
Legendy taneční hudby |
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1988 |
Veselé příhody z natáčení |
1974 |
Ráčte vstúpiť |
1968 |
The 40th Annual Academy Awards |
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