Pavel Juráček
Writing
Birthday
1935/08/02
Day of death
1989/05/20 (53 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Príbram, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Also know as
Pavel Jurácek, Pavel Juracek
Biography
Pavel Juráček was a Czech screenwriter and film director who studied at FAMU. Although not as famous as Miloš Forman or Jiří Menzel, he was an exponent of the Czech New Wave as well. He worked at Prague Barrandov Studios; however after his satirical movie Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) was shelved, his movie career came to an end.
