Vojtěch Jasný
Born
30 November 1925 (100)
Place of Birth
Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
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...
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.
Filmography (40)
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018
Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
2009
Searching for Ester
2005
Hell on Earth
2001
Return to Paradise Lost
1999
Gladys
1999
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Why Havel?
1991
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The Great Land of Small
1987
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
1984
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Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
1983
We
1982
Am Strand
1982
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The Woman from Sarajevo
1980
🎬 DirectorDie Stühle des Herrn Szmil
1979
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Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
1978
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Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
1978
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The Clown
1976
Attempted Flight
1976
🎬 DirectorDas Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
1975
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Der Kulterer
1974
Der Leuchtturm
1972
🎬 DirectorNasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
1972
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Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
1970
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Czech Rhapsody
1970
All My Good Countrymen
1969
The Pipes
1966
Magnetické vlny léčí
1965
When the Cat Comes
1963
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
1961
I Survived Certain Death
1960
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Desire
1958
September Nights
1957
Opportunity
1956
🎬 DirectorEverything Ends Tonight
1955
Stará čínská opera
1954
🎬 DirectorZ čínského zápisníku
1954
🎬 DirectorLidé jednoho srdce
1953
🎬 DirectorNeobyčejná léta
1952
🎬 DirectorZa život radostný
1951
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It’s Not Always Cloudy
1950