Jiří Křižan

Jiří Křižan (born October 26, 1941 in Valašské Meziříčí , † October 13, 2010 in Branky ) was a Czech scriptwriter and politician .

Life

Jiří Křižan's parents were persecuted by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the communist regime in Czechoslovakia . His father was sentenced to death in 1951 after a political trial and executed; Jiří itself in 1958, just before the high school from the school thrown because it derogatory poems about the recently deceased President Antonín Zápotocký had published.

From 1964 to 1968 Křižan studied at the film and television faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . To finance his studies, he first worked as a miner and during the Prague Spring in 1968 as a journalist for the daily newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes . At that time he was already writing scripts for short films . In 1965 his first screenplay Horký vzduch was made into a film by director Václav Gajer . Křižan's zenith as a writer came in the 1970s when he wrote the screenplay for a film almost every year. Nevertheless, he wrote scripts himself in his later years and in 2003 even developed the six-part miniseries Záchranáři .

Under the pseudonym John Beran, he wrote the book Exercicia in 1971 , which was published exclusively in Sweden and the Netherlands .

From the mid-1980s onwards, Křižan was also politically active in the anti-communist movement, and in January 1989 he founded a committee in order to achieve the release of Václav Havel from prison. Together with Havel and Alexandr Vondra , Křižan contributed significantly to the overthrow of communism through his work . When Havel was elected Czech President in December 1989, Křižan followed him into the government as an important advisor. Most recently he was sworn in as Deputy Czech Interior Minister in 1992; an office which he held until 1994.

After that, Jiří Křižan returned to the world of film as a screenwriter. In 1999 he was awarded the Bohemian Lion and the Polish Film Prize for his film Je třeba zabít Sekala . In the same year he was awarded for Best Screenplay for the same film at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia .

In the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in May 2010 , Jiří Křižan applied unsuccessfully as a member of the TOP 09 party for a seat in the Czech Chamber of Deputies .

Křižan died of a heart attack in October 2010, shortly before his 69th birthday .

Filmography (selection)

• 1977: Shadow of a hot summer (Stíny horkého léta)
• 1980: The testimony (Paragraph 224)
• 1980: Signum Laudis
• 1984: The Extended Time (Prodlouzený cas)
• 1984: Bought Life (Mrtvi ucia zivych)
• 1985: The shepherd boy from the valley (Pasácek z doliny)
• 1987: Outsider
• 1989: trip to the southwest (Cesta na jihozápad)
• 1998: The bastard must die (Je treba zabít Sekala)

Web links

• Jiří Křižan in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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