Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel | |
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Born | |
Died | 5 September 2020 | (aged 82)
Occupation | Film director |
Spouse | Olga Menzelová |
Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] ⓘ) (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020)[1] 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.[2] Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.[3][4]
Early life
Menzel was born in Prague in 1938 to Josef Menzel and Božena Jindřichová.[5] His father Josef was a journalist, translator and children's book writer.[6] Menzel studied directing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in Prague. His teachers at the academy included Czech Director Otakar Vávra.[7]
Career
Menzel was a member of the
Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village.[11] In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.[12] In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.[13] In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.[14] He was awarded an IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.[15] He was also awarded the French title of Knight of Arts and Letters and the Czech Lion for lifetime artistic contribution.[4][10]
In the 1980s he was offered by a West German television studio to make a television series version of The Good Soldier Švejk with Rudolf Hrušínský. He didn't get the permission from the Czechoslovak government however.[16]
His last appearance in a feature film was in the 2018 Slovak film, The Interpreter, which was based on the story of a man's interactions with an SS soldier who had executed his parents. The film was Slovakia's official entry to the Oscars.[10][17]
Death
Menzel died on 5 September 2020, aged 82, after battling a prolonged illness.
Filmography
As a director
Year | English title | Original title | Notes |
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1960 | Prefabricated Houses[24] | Domy z panelů | School film |
1963 | Our Mr. Foerster Died[25] | Umřel nám pan Foerster | School film |
1963 | Something Different[25] | O něčem jiném | assistant director |
1965 | Concert '65[25] | Koncert 65 | Short documentary |
1965 | Crime at the Girls School | Zločin v dívčí škole | Segment "Crime at the Girls School", also screenwriter |
1966 | Pearls of the Deep | Perličky na dně | Segment "Smrt pana Baltazara" (The Death of Mr. Balthazar), also screenwriter |
1966 | Closely Watched Trains | Ostře sledované vlaky | also screenwriter, Academy Award winner
|
1968 | Crime in a Music Hall[25] | Zločin v šantánu | also screenwriter |
1968 | Capricious Summer | Rozmarné léto | also screenwriter |
1969 | Larks on a String | Skřivánci na niti | also screenwriter, banned and not released until 1990 |
1974 | Altered Landscapes | Proměny krajiny | Short documentary |
1974 | Who Looks for Gold? | Kdo hledá zlaté dno | also screenwriter |
1976 | Seclusion Near a Forest | Na samotě u lesa | |
1978 | Those Wonderful Movie Cranks | Báječní muži s klikou | also screenwriter |
1980 | Cutting It Short | Postřižiny | also screenwriter |
1981 | Tři v tom[26] | TV theatre | |
1982 | Krasosmutnění[27] | TV film | |
Dr. Johann Faust, Praha II., Karlovo nám. 40[28] | TV theatre | ||
1983 | Best Wishes From Planet Earth | Srdečný pozdrav ze zeměkoule | |
1984 | The Snowdrop Festival | Slavnosti sněženek | also screenwriter |
1985 | My Sweet Little Village | Vesničko má středisková | Nominated for Academy Award
|
1986 | Chocolate Cop | Die Schokoladenschnüffler | |
1989 | The End of Old Times | Konec starých časů | also screenwriter |
1991 | Audience[25] | TV film | |
1991 | Beggar's Opera | Žebrácká opera | also screenwriter |
1993 | Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin | Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina | Nominated for 8 Czech Lion Awards[29] |
1998 | Jacobowski a plukovník[30] | TV theatre | |
2002 | Ten Minutes Older | Segment "One Moment" | |
2006 | I Served the King of England | Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále | also screenwriter, nominated for 11 Czech Lion Awards,[31] won 5[32] |
2013 | The Don Juans | Donšajni[33] | also screenwriter |
As an actor
- Strop (Short film) (1962)[25]
- Place in the Crowd (1964)[25]
- Obžalovaný (1964)[25]
- Courage for Every Day (1964)[25]
- If a Thousand Clarinets (1965)[25]
- Pension pro svobodné pány (TV Movie) (1965)[25]
- Pearls of the Deep (1965)[25]
- Nobody Will Laugh (1965)[25]
- Searching (1966)[25]
- Volejte Martina (1966)[25]
- Closely Watched Trains (1966)[25]
- Flám (1966)[25]
- Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)[25]
- Hotel for Strangers (1967)[25]
- Private Hurricane (1967)[25]
- Dita Saxová (1968)[25]
- Capricious Summer (1968)[25]
- Crime in a Music Hall (1968)[25]
- The Cremator (1969)[25]
- Larks on a String (1969)[25]
- Nevěsta (1970)[25]
- Straw Hat (1972)[25]
- Sechse kommen durch die Welt (1972, voiced by Eberhard Esche)[25]
- Thirty Maidens and Pythagoras (1973)[25]
- The Apple Game (1976)[25]
- Modrá planeta (1977)[25]
- The Woman Across the Way (1978)[25]
- Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)[25]
- Every Wednesday (1979)[25]
- Hra na telo (1979)[25]
- Koportos (1980)[25]
- Bulldogs and Cherries (1981)[25]
- Tale of the Little Quarter (TV Movie)(1981)[25]
- Szívzür (1982)[25]
- Ferat Vampire (1982)[25]
- Švédská zápalka (TV Movie) (1982)[25]
- Babička se zbláznila (TV Movie) (1982)[25]
- Srdečný pozdrav ze zeměkoule (1983)[25]
- Fandy, ó Fandy (1983)[25]
- Sedm křížků (TV Movie)(1983)[34]
- Felhöjáték (1984)[25]
- Albert (TV Movie) (1985)[25]
- Run, He Is Coming! (1987)[25]
- Dámská jízda (TV Movie) (1988)[25]
- Stvoření světa (TV Movie) (1989)[25]
- Zvláštní bytosti (1990)[25]
- Něžný barbar (1990)[25]
- Martha and I (1990)[25]
- Zvonokosy (TV Movie)(1990)[25]
- Pražský student (TV Mini-Series)(1990)[25]
- The Elementary School (1991)[25]
- Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel (TV Movie)(1992)[25]
- The Little Apocalypse (1993)[25]
- Všetko čo mám rád (1993)[25]
- Joint Venture (1994)[25]
- Revenge (1995)[25]
- How to Deserve a Princess (1995)[25]
- Too Loud a Solitude (1996)[25]
- Truck Stop (1996)[35]
- Drákulův švagr (TV Mini-Series) (1996)[25]
- Franciska vasárnapjai (1997)[25]
- Hospoda (TV Series) (1996-1997)[25]
- All My Loved Ones (1999)[25]
- Zimní víla (TV Movie) (1999)[25]
- When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (2000)[25]
- The Sunken Cemetery (2002)[25]
- Útěk do Budína (2002)[25]
- Világszám! (2004)[36]
- Rokonok (2006)[25]
- Teddy Bear (2007)[25]
- A bárány utolsó megkísértése (TV Movie) (2008)[25]
- Setkání v Praze, s vraždou (TV Movie) (2009)[25]
- Operation Dunaj (2009)[25]
- Wonderful Times[37](TV Series) (2009)
- The Door (2012)[25]
- Head Over Heels (TV Series) (2012–14)[38]
- The Interpreter (2018)[25]
See also
References
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External links
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