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Vojtěch Jasný

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
5

Gender
Male

Birthday
November 30, 1925 (100 years old)

Place of Birth
Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Vojtěch Jasný

Biography

Vojtěch Jasný (born 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia.

An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968. Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) and The New York Film Academy (NYFA).

Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat is an allegorical fable about a magical cat that comes to a small Czech town and causes the underlying nature of the townspeople to be revealed. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Also among Jasný's works is Všichni dobří rodáci /All My Good Countrymen (1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968.

Known For

Directing

2002Broken Silence...Director
2001Hell on Earth...Director
1999Return to Paradise Lost...Director
1999Gladys...Director
1991Why Havel?...Director
1987The Great Land of Small...Director
1984Der blinde Richter...Director
1984Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen...Director
1983Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher...Director
1982We...Director
1982Am Strand...Director
1980The Woman from Sarajevo...Director
1979Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil...Director
1978Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn...Director
1978Impressions of Herbert von Karajan...Director
1976The Clown...Director
1976Attempted Flight...Director
1975Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März...Director
1974Der Kulterer...Director
1972Der Leuchtturm...Director
1972Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen...Director
1970Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit...Director
1970Czech Rhapsody...Director
1969All My Good Countrymen...Director
1966The Pipes...Director
1965Magnetické vlny léčí...Director
1963When the Cat Comes...Director
1961The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin...Director
1960I Survived Certain Death...Director
1958Desire...Director
1957September Nights...Director
1956Opportunity...Director
1955Everything Ends Tonight...Director
1954Stará čínská opera...Director
1954Z čínského zápisníku...Director
1953Lidé jednoho srdce...Director
1952Neobyčejná léta...Director
1951Za život radostný...Director
1950It’s Not Always Cloudy...Director
1949Věděli si rady...Director
Milos Forman: Portrait...Director

Writing

2001Hell on Earth...Screenplay
1999Return to Paradise Lost...Screenplay
1999Gladys...Writer
1991Why Havel?...Screenplay
1985The Peanut Butter Solution...Writer
1984Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen...Writer
1978Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn...Writer
1978Impressions of Herbert von Karajan...Writer
1976The Clown...Screenplay
1976Attempted Flight...Writer
1974Der Kulterer...Writer
1972Der Leuchtturm...Adaptation
1971Dogs and People...Screenplay
1971Dogs and People...Story
1970Czech Rhapsody...Story
1970Czech Rhapsody...Screenplay
1969All My Good Countrymen...Screenplay
1969All My Good Countrymen...Story
1968Jarní vody...Story
1966The Pipes...Screenplay
1963When the Cat Comes...Screenplay
1963When the Cat Comes...Screenstory
1958Desire...Screenplay
1958Desire...Story
1957Váhavý střelec...Story
1957September Nights...Screenplay
1956Opportunity...Screenplay
1953Lidé jednoho srdce...Screenplay
1952Neobyčejná léta...Screenplay
1952Neobyčejná léta...Story
1951Za život radostný...Screenplay
1951Za život radostný...Story
1950It’s Not Always Cloudy...Screenplay
1949Věděli si rady...Screenplay
1949Věděli si rady...Story

Crew

1994Soloist...Thanks
1990A Boy And His Car...Thanks
1989The Lunch Date...Thanks

Camera

1954Stará čínská opera...Camera Operator
1954Z čínského zápisníku...Camera Operator
1953Lidé jednoho srdce...Camera Operator
1952Neobyčejná léta...Director of Photography
1950It’s Not Always Cloudy...Director of Photography
1949Věděli si rady...Director of Photography

Editing

1950It’s Not Always Cloudy...Editor

Acting

2018CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzelas Self
2009Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasnyas Self
2009Golden Sixtiesas Self
2005Searching for Esteras Himself
1950It’s Not Always Cloudyas Man with a Gramophone (uncredited)