Zbyněk Brynych

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Zbyněk Brynych (born June 13, 1927 in Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia , † August 24, 1995 in Prague , Czech Republic ) was a Czech film director .

Life

Brynych became a film director for feature films through various film professions - he was a screenwriter , assistant director , assistant director and director for documentaries - and a distance learning at the Faculty for Film and Television of the Academy of Performing Arts Prague (FAMU) . From 1953 to 1955 he worked first in the army film studio, then in the feature film studio when he made his first feature film, Suburban Romance, in 1958 . Two years later he achieved his greatest commercial success with Smyk - Towards the Abyss . For this production he was awarded the Director's Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival .

With the 1962 feature film Transport from Paradise via the Theresienstadt concentration camp and its Jewish elder, "Marmulstaub" (whose real name was Benjamin Murmelstein ), Brynych gained further reputation. Since the late 1960s, Brynych also worked in the Federal Republic of Germany and staged some literary adaptations by Erich Maria Remarque and Franz Kafka , as well as various television productions and numerous episodes of the television series Der Kommissar , Der Alte , Derrick and Police Inspection 1 , all productions by Helmut Ringelmann , for the he worked almost exclusively. In between (1973 to 1976) he directed various film and television productions in the ČSSR . His last directorial work in the early summer of 1994 was also a Ringelmann production. This is the episode Idealists in the series The Man Without a Shadow .

Filmography

script

  • 1957: The way to you (Roztržka)
  • 1960: Smyk - Towards the Abyss (Smyk)
  • 1963: Transport from Paradise (Transport z ráje)
  • 1973: What color is love? (Jakou barvu má láska)
  • 1974: The night of the orange fires (Noc oranžových ohňů)
  • 1975: Romance for a Crown (Romance za korunu)

Director

  • 1958: Suburban romance (Žižkovská romance)
  • 1959: Five out of a million (Pět z milionu)
  • 1960: Smyk - Towards the Abyss (Smyk)
  • 1963: Transport from Paradise (Transport z ráje)
  • 1965: The fifth rider is fear (... a pátý jezdec strach)
  • 1966: Constellation Virgo (Souhvězdí Panny)
  • 1967: When Hitler survived the war (Já, spravedlnost)
  • 1969: The Terrible (ZDF series "Der Kommissar")
  • 1969: America or the Missing (ZDF TV film)
  • 1970: O Happy Day
  • 1970: Angels Burning Their Wings
  • 1970: The paper flower killer (ZDF series "Der Kommissar")
  • 1970: Death of a witness (ZDF series "Der Kommissar")
  • 1970: Parking lot hyenas (ZDF series "Der Kommissar")
  • 1970: the females
  • 1971: The Night of Lisbon (based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque )
  • 1972: LEGION - Sahara Hell's Gate (Oáza)
  • 1974: What color is love? (Jakou barvu má láska)
  • 1974: The night of the orange fires (Noc oranžových ohňů)
  • 1975: Romance for a Crown (Romance za korunu)
  • 1978: Persecuted and Suspected (Stíhán a podezřelý)
  • 1984: Halftime of Happiness (Poločas štěstí)

Awards

literature

  • Noack, Frank: In the mantis spa. Zbyněk Brynych's DIE WEIBCHEN (1970) take seriously the destruction of men. In: Filmblatt, Vol. 17, No. 49 Summer 2012, pp. 3-11.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanno Loewy : Reconstruction and the Grotesque - Zbyněk Brynych's "Transport from Paradise" in context. In Ronny Loewy; Katharina Rauschenberger Ed .: "The Last of the Unjust" - the "Jewish Elder" Benjamin Murmelstein in films 1942 - 1975. Campus, Frankfurt a. M., 2011 ISBN 978-3-593-39491-6 . P. 179.
personal data
SURNAME Brynych, Zbyněk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1995
Place of death Prague