Jiří Menzel

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Jiří Menzel (2007)

Jiří Menzel (born February 23, 1938 in Prague ; † September 5, 2020 there ) was a Czech director and actor . He was one of the main characters in the Czechoslovak Nouvelle Vague , which caused a stir around the world in the 1960s.

Life

Jiří Menzel was born in 1938 as the son of the children's book author Josef Menzel . During his training at the FAMU film school in Prague from 1957 to 1962, he made his first short films Domy z panelů (1960) and Umřel nám pan Foerster (1962). He then worked for the newsreel until 1965. A tour with the theater group “La Madragola” took him in 1967 through Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries. Menzel has staged at theaters in Stockholm, Basel and Bochum.

He made his film debut as an actor in 1962 in strop by Věra Chytilová . Since then, Menzel has worked both as an actor and director in cinema and television productions. His 1966 comedy Love According to the Timetable was honored at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival and received an Oscar , and his later film Heimat, sweet home from 1985 was also nominated for an Oscar. Menzel's comedy Rozmarné léto (1968) won a prize at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival .

Jiří Menzel in Wiesbaden in April 2016

Menzel often used his compatriot Bohumil Hrabal for literary models ; when he filmed his Larks on a Thread in 1969 , this satirical film was banned after the crackdown on the Prague Spring . It was only shown to an international audience at the Berlinale in 1990 and was awarded the Golden Bear . Menzel was banned from working in film in 1970, turned to the theater and was considered a defining figure on his home stage in the Vinohrady district of Prague .

With Postřižiny (1980), a story from Bohemia from the 1920s, he had great success with the audience. He played several times in Hungarian and German films in the 1970s and 80s, including Gyula Maárs Felhőjáték (1983) and Krzysztof Zanussi's The Long Conversation with the Bird (1990).

In the 1990s, Menzel tried unsuccessfully to film Hrabal's I served the English king . It was not until 2005 that he was able to start filming after the failure of several competing projects (including those of Karel Kachyňa ). The film, with Julia Jentsch and Oldřich Kaiser in the leading roles, premiered in November 2006 and was awarded the Bohemian Lion , the Czech Republic's national film prize , a year later .

Menzel died after a long illness on September 5, 2020 at the age of 82.

Filmography

Director

  • 1960: Domy z panelů
  • 1962: Umřel nám pan Foerster
  • 1963: From something else (O něčem jiném) (assistant director)
  • 1964: Courage for everyday life (Každý den odvahu)
  • 1965: Pearls on the seabed (Perličky na dně)
  • 1965: Crimes in the girls' school (Zločin v dívčí škole)
  • 1966: Love according to the timetable (Ostře sledované vlaky)
  • 1968: Zločin v šantánu
  • 1968: A capricious summer (Rozmarné léto)
  • 1969: Plakala, panna plakala (TV movie)
  • 1969: Larks on a thread (Skřivánci na niti) (Berlinale winner 1990)
  • 1971: Mandragola (TV series)
  • 1974: Who seeks the golden ground (Kdo hledá zlaté dno)
  • 1974: Proměny krajimy
  • 1975: Looking for a little house in the countryside (Na samotě u lesa)
  • 1978: The wonderful men with the crank (Báječní muži s klikou)
  • 1980: The Shearing (Postřižiny)
  • 1983: The wild boar is on the loose (Slavnosti sněženek)
  • 1984: Prague
  • 1985: Home, sweet home (Vesničko má, středisková)
  • 1985: The chocolate snoopers
  • 1989: End of the old days (Konec starých časů)
  • 1991: Prague Beggar Opera (Žebrácká opera)
  • 1994: The Memorable Adventures of Soldier Ivan Chonkin (Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina)
  • 2002: Ten Minutes Older (Episode: Dalších deset minut II.)
  • 2006: I served the English king (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále)
  • 2013: Donšajni

actor

  • 1962: strop
  • 1964: Místo v houfu
  • 1964: Kdyby tisíc Klarinetů
  • 1964: Courage for everyday life (Každý den odvahu)
  • 1964: Obžalovaný
  • 1965: Bloudění
  • 1965: Perličky na dně
  • 1965: Nobody will laugh (Nikdo se nebude smát)
  • 1965: Volejte Martina
  • 1966: The Return of the Prodigal Son (Návrat ztraceného syna)
  • 1966: Hotel pro cizince
  • 1966: Flám
  • 1967: Dita Saxová
  • 1967: Soukromá vichřice
  • 1968: Zločin v šantánu
  • 1968: A capricious summer (Rozmarné léto)
  • 1968: The Incinerator (Spalovač mrtvol)
  • 1970: Nevěsta
  • 1972: Six come through the world
  • 1973: Třicet panen a Pythagoras
  • 1976: Hra o jablko
  • 1977: Guernica
  • 1978: The wonderful men with the crank (Báječní muži s klikou)
  • 1978: The woman opposite
  • 1979: Koportos
  • 1979: Hra na tělo
  • 1979: Modrá planeta
  • 1979: Minden szerdan
  • 1981: Szivzur
  • 1981: Buldoci a třešně
  • 1982: Srdečný pozdrav ze zeměkoule
  • 1983: The car vampire (Upír z Feratu)
  • 1983: Caprices in transit (Felhőjáték)
  • 1983: Fandy, ó fandy
  • 1986: Utíkejme už jde
  • 1987: The Purest Drama (Dámska jízda) (TV movie)
  • 1989: Něžný barbar
  • 1990: Zvláštní bytosti
  • 1990: The long conversation with the bird
  • 1990: Marta a yes
  • 1991: The primary school (Obecná škola)
  • 1992: Vsetko, co mam rad
  • 1993: The Little Apocalypse (Mała apokalipsa / La petite apocalypse / La piccola apokalisse)
  • 1994: Joint venture
  • 1995: Jak si zasloužit princeznu
  • 1995: Má je pomsta
  • 1996: Truck Stop
  • 1996: Hospoda
  • 1996: Draculův švagr
  • 1997: Franciska vasárnapjai
  • 1999: Všichni moji blízcí
  • 2000: Sametová kocovina
  • 2002: Potonulo groblje
  • 2002: Útěk do Budína
  • 2018: Dolmetscher (The Interpreter)

literature

  • Michael Hanisch: People on the edge. Jirí Menzel turns 70 . In: film service . Volume 58, No. 4/2008, pp. 16-17, ISSN  0720-0781

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ V osmdesáti dvou letech zemřel režisér Jiří Menzel (Director Jiří Menzel died at the age of 82). Deník, accessed September 7, 2020 (Czech).
  2. ↑ Oscar winner Jiri Menzel has died. September 7, 2020, accessed September 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Menzel, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 2020
Place of death Prague