Vojtěch Jasný

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vojtěch Jasný (1998)

Vojtěch Jasný (born November 30, 1925 in Kelč , Czechoslovakia ; † November 15, 2019 in Přerov , Czech Republic ) was a Czechoslovak or Czech director and screenwriter .

Life

Vojtěch Jasný studied philosophy and Russian literature at the Charles University in Prague and from 1946 to 1951 he studied camera and directing at the film faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . From 1951 to 1956 he worked in the army film studio. From 1956 to 1970 he was a writer and director of the Barrandov film studio and television. In 1970 Jasny emigrated from Czechoslovakia for political reasons, first went via Yugoslavia to Austria, where he was granted Austrian citizenship, and then lived and taught in New York . At the Burgtheater in Vienna he worked temporarily as a theater director. In 1989 he returned to Prague during the Velvet Revolution .

In the 1970s, Jasný became known in Germany through literary adaptations of two books by Heinrich Böll ( Not only at Christmas time and Views of a Clown ) as well as through television productions for ZDF and Bavarian Radio .

For the film All Good Compatriots , in which he portrays the forced collectivization of agriculture in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War, Jasný was awarded the director's prize at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival .

Jasný died in November 2019, two weeks before his 94th birthday.

Filmography

  • 1954: Dnes večer všechno skončí (It all comes to an end tonight) - with Karel Kachyňa , ČSR
  • 1957: Zářijové noci (September nights ) , ČSR
  • 1958: Touha (longing) , ČSR
  • 1960: Přežil jsem svou smrt (I survived my death) , ČSSR, drama,
  • 1963: Až přijde kocour (At night when the hangover comes) , ČSSR, fantasy film,
  • 1966: Dýmky ( pipes, beds, lovebirds ) , ČSSR / Austria, comedy, film adaptation
  • 1967: Maminka, FR Germany, ZDF
  • 1968: Všichni dobří rodáci (All good compatriots) , ČSSR, drama, critical examination of the forced collectivization in the agriculture of his home country
  • 1969: Česká rapsodie (Czech Rhapsody) , length: 20 minutes
  • 1970: Not only at Christmas time , BR Germany, ZDF, literary film adaptation of a satire by Heinrich Böll
  • 1972: The lighthouse, BR Germany / Austria, ZDF / ORF
  • 1972. Nasrin or The Art of Dreaming, BR Germany, SWF
  • 1973: Separate peace, Federal Republic of Germany, ZDF
  • 1973: dream dancer, BR Germany, SDR
  • 1974: Spring floods, Federal Republic of Germany / Austria, SWF / ORF, based on a novella by Iwan Turgenjew
  • 1974: Der Kulterer, BR Germany / Austria, ZDF / ORF, - film narration based on the work Der Kulterer by Thomas Bernhard
  • 1975: Life of the schizophrenic poet Alexander M., BR Germany, ZDF, 1975, template for March - an artist's life by Heinar Kipphardt
  • 1975: The core of the matter, BR Germany, ZDF
  • 1975: Escape attempt, feature film
  • 1975: Views of a Clown , BR Germany, drama, film adaptation of the book of the same name by Heinrich Böll
  • 1976: Trees, birds and people, BR Germany, ZDF
  • 1976: Ernst Fuchs , artist portrait
  • 1977: My blessed uncle, Austria, ORF
  • 1977: The return of the old man, Austria, ORF
  • 1977: Fairy, FR Germany, ZDF
  • 1977: The freedom of boredom. BR Germany, ZDF
  • 1979: The chairs of Mr. Szmil, BR Germany, BR
  • 1979: The night the boss was slaughtered, BR Germany, ZDF
  • 1980: Marriage of the rooster crows, BR Germany, ZDF
  • 1980: The ideas of St. Clare, BR Germany, ZDF, based on the template by Pavel Kohout
  • 1982: We, BR Germany, ZDF
  • 1983: There are still hazelnut bushes , TV film
  • 1983: Das Fräulein, BR Germany, BR
  • 1984: See you later - I have to shoot myself, BR Germany, ZDF, based on the comedy 'Der Sumörder' by Nikolai Robertowitsch Erdman , a socially critical grotesque about a life weary
  • 1984: The Blind Judge, TV series
  • 1986: In the great country of the little people, Canada, children's film
  • 1991: Why Havel ? - documentation
  • 1999: Return of Paradise Lost

Web links

Commons : Vojtěch Jasný  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ V 93 letech zemřel Vojtěch Jasný, author filmu Všichni dobří rodáci. In: idnes.cz. iDNES , November 16, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b c Markéta Kachlíková: Film director Vojtěch Jasný is dead , radio.cz, November 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Jasný, Vojtěch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelč , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 2019
Place of death Přerov , Czech Republic