Ivan Pokorný

Ivan Pokorný (born December 12, 1952 in Prague ) is a Czech director , actor and screenwriter .

Life

He graduated from the DAMU Theater School in Prague in 1975 and then worked as a freelance actor and director. He spent the years from 1983 to 1995 in political exile in Austria and Germany, where he mainly worked as a theater director. After he returned to the Czech Republic, the focus of his directing activities was on cooperation with Czech television but also with TV Nova , MDR , ARD , KI.KA , and NDR .

In 2002 Ivan Pokorny shot his first feature film ("Abduction Home"). He also took part in journalistic projects and directed television theater productions.

He lives with the author Iva Procházková .

Selection of his films

• 1984 - Fortune given away (Tři veteráni)
• 1994 - The Last Supper (TV drama)
• 1997 - The House of Last Joy (TV three-part)
• 2000 - Our Children (TV comedy)
• 2000 - The Ghosts Among Us (TV youth series)
• 2002 - The City out of breath (TV eco-thriller)
• 2002 - Agency Puzzle (TV crime thriller)
• 2002 - Abduction home (Únos domú) (movie)
• 2003 - Death of a pedophile (TV psycho thriller)
• 2008 - The recurrences of power (film essay)
• 2010 - Body Cathedrals (documentary)
• 2019 - Orange days (Uzly a POMERANCE)

Web links

• Ivan Pokorný in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Profile on the website of the Saxon Academy of the Arts