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Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] 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. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.
Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.
Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.
As director
The Don Juans
Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions
I Served the King of England
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
One Moment
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
The Beggar's Opera
Larks on a String
The End of Old Times
Audience
Die Schokoladenschnüffler
My Sweet Little Village
The Snowdrop Festival
Cutting It Short
Tři v tom
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Secluded, Near Woods
Who Looks for Gold?
Mandragora
Capricious Summer
Crime in the Night Club
Closely Watched Trains
Pearls of the Deep
Crime at the Girls School
Our Dear Mr. Foerster Died
Blocks of Flats
As actor
The Interpreter
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
Milan Čorba
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
Signál
Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions
Operation Dunaj
Setkání v Praze, s vraždou
Teddy Bear
Zimní víla
A bárány utolsó megkísértése
Pocta V+W
Daddy
The Sunken Cemetery
Útek do Budína
Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte
All My Loved Ones
Franciska vasárnapjai
Too Loud A Solitude
Joint Venture
Vengeance Is Mine
How to Deserve a Princess
Dr. Hrabal
Everything I Like
The Little Apocalypse
The Elementary School
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