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.
The Cremator
as DvorakIn 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly...
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Daisies
as Jan (voice)Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the...
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The Elementary School
as Gynecologist MUDr. KalabanThe time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside...
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Larks on a String
as ConvictIn post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to...
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Closely Watched Trains
as Dr. BrabecAt a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice...
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Ferat Vampire
as Dr. MarekA doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car...
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Pearls of the Deep
as Cyclist (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of...
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Ceiling
as uncreditedThe young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a...
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Capricious Summer
as ArnoštekMiddle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river,...
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CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
as SelfAn epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around...
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Nobody Will Laugh
as uncreditedA successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an...
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The Interpreter
as Ali Ungár80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime...
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Joint Venture
as Prof. AdamecPrague 1994, hotbed of international profiteers. Here you can still find buyers for discarded...
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Courage for Every Day
as Jarduv kolegaA passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure...
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The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
as SelfThe film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important...
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Hotel for Strangers
as Pot-boyA gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long...
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Straw Hat
as uncreditedSlacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as...
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The Little Apocalypse
as StanAn unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get...
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Everything I Like
as VasekA film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with...
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Operation Dunaj
as OskarOperation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in...
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All My Loved Ones
as uncreditedTold from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of...
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Signál
as ProkešTwo young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the...
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Teddy Bear
as Romanuv otecJirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although...
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Minden szerdán
as János - államtitkárStephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is...
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The Return of the Prodigal Son
as JiríEngineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful...
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Crime in the Night Club
as KlaunA black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
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Sechse kommen durch die Welt
as SoldatThe King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden...
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Bulldogs and Cherries
as WaiterThe dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty...
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
as uncreditedReturning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying...
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Dita Saxová
as Herbert LagusA beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy,...
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30 Maidens and Pythagoras
as profesor matematiky LudolfA musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and...
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Hearty Greetings from the Globe
as Dr. JánskýTwo aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
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If a Thousand Clarinets
as SchulzeA military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change...
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How to Deserve a Princess
as dvorní malířA fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.
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The Gentle Barbarian
as DoktorA commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
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Heart Tremors
as uncreditedThe general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common...
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The Sunken Cemetery
as Doktor JavorskiIvan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical...
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Too Loud A Solitude
as ProfessorAn elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving...
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Searching
as uncreditedMichal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social...
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A Place in the Crowd
as (segment "Jak se kalí ocel")A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their...
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To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
as SelfDocumentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš...
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Fandy ó Fandy
as uncreditedLittle kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no...
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Blue Planet
as Štěpán PavlíkA young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.
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Daddy
as SelfThis film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.
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Dr. Hrabal
as uncreditedA film impression about Bohumil Hrabal - an encounter with the man and his literary work. The...
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Private Torment
as uncreditedA worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for...
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Koportos
as A papBalog Mihály, the Gypsy man from Szabolcs works in Budapest. That is where he is notified that...
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Defendant
as obhájce Frantisek HorácekManagers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
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More Than Words
as SelfTV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal...
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The Apple Game
as MUDr. Josef JohnSarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure...
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Martin Speaking
as uncreditedThe second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:
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Passing Fancy
as uncreditedThe main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr....
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Hospoda
as MUDr. Prášek - psychiatrHospoda is a Czech television comedy series which premiered on TV Nova. From 1996 to 1997, 52...
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