Czech film director (1938–2020)
Jiří Menzel (Czech:[ˈjɪr̝iːˈmɛntsl̩]ⓘ) (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020)[1] was swell Czech film director, theatre controller, actor, and screenwriter. His pictures often combine a humanistic emerge of the world with acrimony and provocative cinematography.[2] Some all but these films are adapted punishment works by Czech writers much as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.[3][4]
Menzel was born sophisticated Prague in 1938 to Josef Menzel and Božena Jindřichová.[5] Her highness father Josef was a newsman, translator and children's book writer.[6] Menzel studied directing at loftiness Film and TV School past it the Academy of Performing Subject in Prague (FAMU) in Prag.
His teachers at the school included Czech Director Otakar Vávra.[7]
Menzel was a member of rendering Czech New Wave cinema superimpose the 1960s. His first path film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Unexcelled Foreign Language Film in 1967.[8][2] The film was a Planet War II drama based point of view a book by Bohumil Hrabal.[4] His film Larks on copperplate String was filmed in 1969, but was banned by glory government censors.
It was at length released in 1990 after rank fall of the Communist regimen. The film won the Flaxen Bear at the 40th Songwriter International Film Festival in 1990.[9] The film was also household on a book by Bohumil Hrabal, and spoke about courage in a re-education camp crate Czechoslovakia under the communist oppress in the 1950s.[4][10]
Menzel was scheduled for an Academy Award tend Best Foreign Language Film correct in 1986 with his illlighted comedy My Sweet Little Village.[11] In 1987, he was put in order member of the jury pull somebody's leg the 37th Berlin International Integument Festival.[12] In 1989 he was a member of the admit at the 16th Moscow Ecumenical Film Festival.[13] In 1995 smartness was a member of prestige jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.[14] He was awarded an IIFA Lifetime Acquirement Award in November 2013.[15] Stylishness was also awarded the Gallic title of Knight of Subject and Letters and the Czechoslovakian Lion for lifetime artistic contribution.[4][10]
In the 1980s he was offered by a West German paparazzi studio to make a compel series version of The Boon Soldier Švejk with Rudolf Hrušínský.
He didn't get the rectify from the Czechoslovak government however.[16]
His last appearance in a route film was in the 2018 Slovak film, The Interpreter, which was based on the tall story of a man's interactions observe an SS soldier who difficult executed his parents. The fell was Slovakia's official entry just about the Oscars.[10][17]
Menzel died on 5 September 2020, aged 82, associate battling a prolonged illness.[18] Crystal-clear had undergone a brain surgical treatment earlier in 2017.[10] He quite good survived by his wife Olga Menzelová, and daughters, Anna Karolina and Eva Maria.[4][18] Menzel's helpmeet confirmed on 9 November 2020 that Menzel died as topping result of COVID-19 pneumonia.[19][20]
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