Jiří Sequens
Jiří Sequens (born April 23, 1922 in Brno , † January 21, 2008 in Prague ) was a Czech actor, director and screenwriter.
Life
Sequens studied acting at the Brno Conservatory and played in theaters in Brno and Prague. He then studied directing at the WGIK in Moscow with Sergei Gerassimow and Sergei Eisenstein in 1946/47 and then, supported by a UNESCO scholarship, 6 months at the IDHEC in Paris . After returning to the ČSR, he made his first short films in 1949. 1951 followed his first feature film The Way to Happiness , whereby in this propaganda film the collectivization of agriculture represents the sought-after "happiness". His fondness for the crime genre began in 1955 with Crimes on the Windberg . In 1957/58 Sequens and his cameraman Rudolf Milič accompanied various Czech merchant ships on trips to Africa and China; Several short films and the feature documentary Bratr oceán (1958) were made from the filmed material .
With Das Attentat , his film about the preparations and consequences of the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich , he took part in the IV Moscow International Film Festival in 1965 . The film won, ex aequo with Yves Ciampi's Le ciel sur la tête , the main prize and made Sequens internationally known. He shot his next two films in Greece; the first of the two, epitaph for friend and enemy with Günther Stoll in the lead role, is set in post-war Berlin and was a great commercial success in Greece.
His next work, filmed in his home country, was even more successful, the 13-part television series Alte Kriminalfälle (1968/69), in which the investigators around Police Officer Vacátko ( Jaroslav Marvan ) and the inspectors Mrázek ( František Filipovský ), Brůžek ( Josef Bláha ) and Bouše ( Josef Vinklář ) solving crimes in Prague in the 1920s and 1930s. The television series was followed by four film sequels in 1970 and 1971 and another television film in 1972.
His next television work was the 30 episodes of Major Zeman’s criminal cases (1974 to 1979). The series (allegedly commissioned by the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior) chronologically traces the career of policeman Jan Zeman ( Vladimír Brabec ) (originally invented by Oldřich Železný ) from 1945 to 1973 in his fight against criminal gangs, economic criminals and, strikingly often, saboteurs and “counter-revolutionaries” ". The propagandistic aspects of the series - for example, in the 1967 episode 24 Gaukler ( Klauni ) is a literary dissident of the reactionary culprits - led to many criticisms of Sequens after the Velvet Revolution . In 2000, the re-broadcast of the Zeman series on Czech television provoked harsh protests and an apology from the television company, albeit with very high ratings. The criminal cases of Major Zeman are now considered a cult series in the Czech Republic, with fan clubs and successful DVD releases, and individual episodes (see episode 26, The Well ) shaped an entire generation of television.
In addition to his film work, Sequens taught at FAMU in Prague from 1971 to 1990 . In 1981 he won the XII with the film Ta chvíle, ten okamžik . Moscow International Film Festival a special award. His last work in 1997 was a four-part revival of his nostalgic Old Crime Cases , this time set in Brno.
Filmography
- 1951: The Way to Happiness ( Cesta ke štěstí )
- 1953: Children of one great love ( Olověný chléb )
- 1955: Crimes on the Windberg ( Větrná hora )
- 1956: Neporažení
- 1958: Escape from the Shadows ( Útěk ze stínu )
- 1958: Bratr oceán [documentary film]
- 1961: Colic slov stačí lásce?
- 1961: Dance of Death in the Pacific ( Smrt na Cukrovém ostrově )
- 1962: Žena pro hrdinu (TV)
- 1962: Šestý do party (TV)
- 1963: Deváté jméno
- 1964: The Assassination / Seven Men at Dawn ( Atentát )
- 1965: Epitafios gia ehthrous kai filous ( Greek Επιτάφιος για εχθρούς και φίλους , 'epitaph for friend and foe')
- 1967: Erotes sti Lesvo / O thanatos echase to pechnidi (Έρωτες στη Λέσβο / Ο θάνατος έχασε το παιχνίδι 'Passions on Lesbos' / 'Death has lost the game')
- 1968/69: Old criminal cases ( Hříšní lidé města pražského ; TV series)
- 1970: The parts of the beautiful dragoon ( Partie krásného dragouna ) -
- 1970: Pěnička a Paraplíčko - theatrical continuation
- 1971: The Death of the Black King ( Smrt černého krále ) - continuation in theaters
- 1971: Murder in the Hotel Excelsior ( Vražda v hotelu Excelsior ) - movie continuation
- 1972: Christmas Eve of the Vacatko Council ( Štědrý večer pana rady Vacátka ; TV) - continued
- 1980: The hostage from Bella Vista ( Rukojmí v Bella Vista ) - theatrical version of episode 27
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Jiří Sequens in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Jirí Sequens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jiří Sequens at CFN.cz
- Jiří Sequens in ČSFD.cz
- Obituary In: The Times
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Export to the west . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1966 ( online ).
- ↑ Inge Dombrowski: “The right role at the right moment”. Conversation with "Melissa" hero Günther Stoll . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , 18./19. June 1966, p. 25 ( Online ; PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ In 1986 director Antonín Moskalyk shot a 10-part sequel under the title Panoptikum der Stadt Prag ( Panoptikum města pražského ), again with the inspectors Mrázek, Brůžek and Bouše. Since Jaroslav Marvan had died in 1974, the new main character of Jiří Adamíra played by the Police Council Korejs was introduced.
- ↑ a b radio.cz
- ↑ nytimes.com
- ↑ http://www.geocities.com/phonik2/zeman.html ( Memento from March 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ radio.cz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sequens, Jiří |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech actor, director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2008 |
| Place of death | Prague |