Jaromil Jireš

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Jaromil Jireš (born December 10, 1935 in Bratislava , † October 24, 2001 in Prague ) was a Czech director and screenwriter who was often associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave .

life and career

In the 1960s, Jireš was often confronted with censors who restricted his work. His film The Scream (Křik) was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964 . The scream has often been referred to as the first Czechoslovak New Wave film . This movement is known for its dark humor, attitudes towards non-professional actors and "art-cinema realism".

Another successful film by Jireš is Žert . This is an adaptation of the novel The Joke by Milan Kundera . Žert tells the story of Ludvik Jahn, a man who was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia for making an inappropriate joke on his girlfriend. As an adolescent, the man wanted revenge for it. The film was produced during the political liberalization movement during the Prague Spring and contained many scenes criticizing the communist leadership. The film was released after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops . It was successful in the cinemas but was quickly banned from the same by the Communist Party. Amos Vogel wrote that the film was probably the biggest and most harrowing accusation of totalitarianism from a communist country.

Valerie - A Week of Miracles , set in the early 19th century and based on a novel by Vítězslav Nezval . The film was released in 1970. It is a Gothic style film that deals with the menstruation and sexual awakening of a 13 year old girl. Jireš Film Mladý muž a bílá velryba was shown at the eleventhMoscow International Film Festival .

After the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia occupied, Jireš continued his work in the country continued, although less controversial. In 1971 he was the director of the film My Love to the Swallows , which was about a Czech resistance fighter in World War II. His film Incomplete Darkness was shown at the 33rd International Film Festival in Berlin. In the 80s and 90s Jireš made other films, including ballet and opera documentaries for television.

Filmography

  • 1958: Horečka (short documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1959: Strejda (short film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1960: Stopy (short film, director)
  • 1960: Sál ztracených kroků (short film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1962: Don Špagát (short film, director)
  • 1964: The Scream (Krik) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1965: Das Blockhaus (Srub) (short film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1966: Pearls on the seabed (Perlicky na dne) (episode "Romance", director and screenwriter)
  • 1966: Občan Karel Havlíček (short film, director)
  • 1967: Hra na krále (short film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1968: Don Juan 68 (short film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1969: The Joke (Žert) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1969: Tribunál (short documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1969: Dědáček (short documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1969: Cesta do Prahy Vincence Mostka a Simona Pesla z Vicnova lp 1969 (short film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1970: Valerie - A Week of Miracles (Valerie a týden divu) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1972: ... and I greet the swallows (... a pozdravuji vlastovky) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1973: Leoš Janáček (TV film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1974: People of the Metro (Lidé z metra) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1974: Kasař (short film) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1974: Il divino Boemo (short film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1976: The Island of the Great Egrets (TV movie, director and screenwriter)
  • 1977: Talíře nad Velkým Malíkovem (director and screenwriter)
  • 1979: Mladý muž a bílá velryba (director and screenwriter)
  • 1979: Zápisník zmizelého (TV film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1980: On Rabbits (Causa králík) (director)
  • 1980: Escape Home (Útěky domu) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1980: Svět Alfonse Muchy (director)
  • 1980: Bohuslav Martinů (TV film, director)
  • 1981: Opera ve vinici (director and screenwriter)
  • 1982: Kouzelná Praha Rudolfa II (TV film, director)
  • 1983: The Incomplete Darkness (Neúplné zatmení) (director and screenwriter)
  • 1984: Katapult (director and screenwriter)
  • 1984: Prodlouzený cas (director and screenwriter)
  • 1985: Miloš Forman - The Cuckoo's Egg (TV documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1986: Lev s bílou hřívou (director and screenwriter)
  • 1987: Sidney Lumet: I Love New York (television documentary, director, and screenwriter)
  • 1987: O Háderunovi a víle Elóře (TV film, director and screenwriter)
  • 1987: Po zarostlem chodníčku (documentary, director)
  • 1988: Naděje má hluboké dno (TV film, director)
  • 1989: The Falcon King (Jestřábí moudrost) (screenwriter)
  • 1990: Antonín Dvořák (TV series, director)
  • 1991: F. Murray Abraham (television documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1991: The Labyrinth (Labyrint) (Director)
  • 1991: Description of a fight (director)
  • 1992: Requiem for the Survivors (Rekviem za ty, kteří přežili) (documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1992: Hudba a víra (television documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1992: Hudba a bolest (television documentary, director and screenwriter)
  • 1992: A jsou-li tu andělé (TV film, director)
  • 1994: Helimadoe (director)
  • 1995: Učitel tance (director)
  • 1999: Dvojrole (director and screenwriter)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonard Quart: 'The Joke' . In: Cineaste . Fall 2003, September, pp. 60–1.
  2. ↑ a b c d Michael Koresky: Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave . The Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on October 29, 2012. Retrieved on October 28, 2012.
  3. ^ Festival de Cannes: The Cry . In: festival-cannes.com . Retrieved February 28, 2009.
  4. ^ Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell: Film History: An Introduction . McGraw-Hill, 1994, ISBN 0070064458 , p. 541 (accessed October 29, 2012).
  5. ↑ Francisco López: Jaromil Jires, The Joke in 1969 . Retrieved February 6, 2007.
  6. ^ Tanya Krzywinska: Transgression, transformation and titillation . Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  7. ^ 11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) . In: MIFF . Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 19, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moscowfilmfestival.ru
  8. ^ Berlinale: 1983 Programs . berlinale.de. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Jireš, Jaromil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2001
Place of death Prague , Czech Republic