Acting
Jiří Menzel
Biography
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.
Movies with Jiří Menzel
Daisies
1966
Passing Fancy
1983
The Cremator
1969
Koportos
1980
Heart Tremors
1981
Straw Hat
1972
Closely Watched Trains
1966
Minden szerdán
1979
Operation Dunaj
2009
Dita Saxová
1968
Signál
2012
Hearty Greetings from the Globe
1983
Nevěsta
1970
Capricious Summer
1968
The Interpreter
2018
Larks on a String
1990
Run, He Is Coming!
1987
If a Thousand Clarinets
1965
Ferat Vampire
1982
The Elementary School
1991
Dr. Hrabal
1993
Daddy
2004
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016
Bulldogs and Cherries
1981
All My Loved Ones
1999
30 Maidens and Pythagoras
1977
Too Loud A Solitude
1995
Hotel for Strangers
1967
Martha and I
1990
A bárány utolsó megkísértése
2006
The Little Apocalypse
1993
Searching
1966
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018
Fandy ó Fandy
1983
Zvonokosy
1990
Joint Venture
1995
The Apple Game
1978
Ceiling
1962
The Gentle Barbarian
1990
The Return of the Prodigal Son
1967
Pearls of the Deep
1966
Flám
1966
Teddy Bear
2007
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
2016
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
1979
An Occasion to Speak
1966
How to Deserve a Princess
1995
Setkání v Praze, s vraždou
2009
Martin Speaking
1966
Sechse kommen durch die Welt
1972
The Sunken Cemetery
2002
Courage for Every Day
1965
Pension pro svobodné pány
1965
Švédská zápalka
1983
Windstorm
1967
Útek do Budína
2002
Nobody Will Laugh
1966
Everything I Like
1993
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
2012
Defendant
1964
Volejte Martina
1966
Stvoření světa
1989
Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte
2001
Zimní víla
2006
Blue Planet
1980
Crime in the Night Club
1968
Vengeance Is Mine
1995
Povídka Malostranská
1981
Dobrá rada je nad zlato
1964
A Place in the Crowd
1964
Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
2014
Milan Čorba
2014
Pocta V+W
2005
Tady vím, proč jsem
1991
Strange Creatures
1990
Albert
1985
Babička se zbláznila
1982
Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions
2011
Dámská jízda
1987
Hra na telo
1980
Franciska vasárnapjai
1996
Hory hory
1964
