If he were to choose today between creating under ideological demands or commercial demands, he would again choose th...

In 2008, he ended his fifty-year lasting teaching career, even then he didn’t resign from the idea of another film. F...

This 2009 documentary on Juraj Herz features in-depth interviews and copious clips from the director's work. Intervie...

He has twice been nominated for an Oscar for the camera in movies Ragtime (1981) and Amadeus (1984), in both cases it...

Originally a student of architecture, then a draft person, laboratory technician, model, a film extra, script assista...

One of those whose creativity was for long sacrificed for the work of others. After studying in Paris he began operat...

He had encountered film as a fifteen year old boy in Jiří Sequens’ Lead Bread (1953) in which he had a bigger part th...

Social issues presented to him, as a film director, always more than an artistic concept, politics meant more to him ...

Butch among students of Otakar Vávra, who finally, despite his initial shyness, proved to be much better than others....

Žižkovský flashy and self-taught, who was brought in the cameraman limelight by his immeasurable, exceptional imagina...

From the role of partisan Pavel in the Kadár-Klos film Because We Don’t Forget (Smrt si říká Engelchen, 1963), the ic...

Ironic cinematic magician and analyst of our conscious and unconscious lapses and passion. The original puppeteer tra...

Together with Ivan Jandl, the first holder of an Oscar and his classmate, they were interested in film already at the...

She had always been interested in those who behave differently than others. And she was no different. She studied mus...

He got to FAMU detour through medical studies and he was one from the famous generation of Otakar Vávra. Already at s...

His name evokes music and he is most known as a moderator of television programs about music personages and other cel...

Enfant terrible of the Czechoslovak New Wave. With his material he had problems already at FAMU, however, just with t...

He belongs to the first Slovak student at the Prague FAMU. He begun with film directing and his long-term illness red...

Already in 1960 he made his first, TV treatment of Mňačko’s novel Because We Don’t Forget. He spent the next years wi...

Already as a student at FAMU, he was sent for »re-education« to a factory. This, however, did not change his demaskin...

From the time of leaving film school FAMU he collaborated mostly with his Slovak compatriots, film directs Elo Havett...

His untamable talent brought him from the East-Slovakian Kojšov to the sunlight of European cinematography. A fierce ...

A filmmaker tied to his homeland in way very few people are, and yet forced by circumstance to become, against his wi...

Already during his studies at Prague’s FAMU he had captivated by his short films. The befitting title of his first fi...

He began his career as a successful and sought-after stage and film actor, he advanced even to the boards of the Nati...

Nomad in his directorial and human destiny. His father, farmer, was expropriated by the communist regime, he himself ...