Ivan Frič

Ivan Frič ( Theresienstadt , 1944)

Ivan Vojtěch Frič (born October 22, 1922 in Prague , Czechoslovakia , † February 22, 2001 ) was a Czechoslovak cameraman , film editor and assistant director .

Life

Frič's father was the ethnographer , botanist in the field of cacti , photographer and writer Alberto Vojtěch Frič , who specialized in the life of Latin American indigenous people . Ivan Frič trained as a cameraman from 1937 to 1939 at the state graphic school in Prague. From 1940 to 1941 he worked for the production company BaPoZ (a film department of the Baťa company ), which specializes in the production of children's films , before he joined Aktuellita in 1941 as a newsreel cameraman , which produced the Czech newsreel. There he initially worked as a camera assistant and editor, later also as a cameraman.

In the summer of 1944, German agencies committed him to the Theresienstadt ghetto . There he was supposed to design the pseudo-documentary propaganda film Theresienstadt, directed by concentration camp inmate Kurt Gerron . Take over a documentary film from the Jewish settlement area . After Gerron and numerous other actors in the film were deported to Auschwitz in October 1944 and murdered, it was up to Frič to finish the final cut of the film.

After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, the man from Prague continued his work for the state newsreel. Since the early 1970s, Ivan Frič has also been an assistant director for Czech feature films. At the age of 65, he retired from the film business in 1987.

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 389.

Web links

• Ivan Frič biography
• Ivan Fric in the Internet Movie Database (English)