Season 1 (2009)

Miloš Forman
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January 3, 2009 • 57m

If he were to choose today between creating under ideological demands or commercial demands, he would again choose the latter poss...Read more

Otakar Vávra
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January 10, 2009 • 57m

In 2008, he ended his fifty-year lasting teaching career, even then he didn’t resign from the idea of another film. First film, Th...Read more

Juraj Herz
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January 17, 2009 • 57m

This 2009 documentary on Juraj Herz features in-depth interviews and copious clips from the director's work. Interview subjects in...Read more

Miroslav Ondříček
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January 24, 2009 • 57m

He has twice been nominated for an Oscar for the camera in movies Ragtime (1981) and Amadeus (1984), in both cases it was a near t...Read more

Věra Chytilová
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January 31, 2009 • 57m

Originally a student of architecture, then a draft person, laboratory technician, model, a film extra, script assistant, assistant...Read more

Albert Marenčin
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February 7, 2009 • 57m

One of those whose creativity was for long sacrificed for the work of others. After studying in Paris he began operating in Czecho...Read more

Hynek Bočan
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February 14, 2009 • 57m

He had encountered film as a fifteen year old boy in Jiří Sequens’ Lead Bread (1953) in which he had a bigger part than the later ...Read more

Ladislav Helge
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February 21, 2009 • 57m

Social issues presented to him, as a film director, always more than an artistic concept, politics meant more to him than poetics....Read more

Jiří Menzel
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February 28, 2009 • 57m

Butch among students of Otakar Vávra, who finally, despite his initial shyness, proved to be much better than others. Before acqui...Read more

Stanislav Milota
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March 7, 2009 • 57m

Žižkovský flashy and self-taught, who was brought in the cameraman limelight by his immeasurable, exceptional imagination and tech...Read more

Jan Kačer
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March 14, 2009 • 57m

From the role of partisan Pavel in the Kadár-Klos film Because We Don’t Forget (Smrt si říká Engelchen, 1963), the icon actor of t...Read more

Jan Švankmajer
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March 21, 2009 • 57m

Ironic cinematic magician and analyst of our conscious and unconscious lapses and passion. The original puppeteer training Semafor...Read more

Meir Lubor Dohnal
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April 4, 2009 • 57m

Together with Ivan Jandl, the first holder of an Oscar and his classmate, they were interested in film already at the High School....Read more

Drahomíra Vihanová
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April 11, 2009 • 57m

She had always been interested in those who behave differently than others. And she was no different. She studied musicology and a...Read more

Jan Schmidt
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April 18, 2009 • 57m

He got to FAMU detour through medical studies and he was one from the famous generation of Otakar Vávra. Already at school and the...Read more

Zdeněk Mahler
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May 9, 2009 • 57m

His name evokes music and he is most known as a moderator of television programs about music personages and other celebrities. An ...Read more

Jan Němec
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May 16, 2009 • 57m

Enfant terrible of the Czechoslovak New Wave. With his material he had problems already at FAMU, however, just with the first feat...Read more

Eduard Grečner
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May 23, 2009 • 57m

He belongs to the first Slovak student at the Prague FAMU. He begun with film directing and his long-term illness redirected him t...Read more

Ivan Balaďa
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May 30, 2009 • 57m

Already in 1960 he made his first, TV treatment of Mňačko’s novel Because We Don’t Forget. He spent the next years with the Czecho...Read more

Karel Vachek
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June 6, 2009 • 57m

Already as a student at FAMU, he was sent for »re-education« to a factory. This, however, did not change his demasking and for man...Read more

Igor Luther
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June 13, 2009 • 57m

From the time of leaving film school FAMU he collaborated mostly with his Slovak compatriots, film directs Elo Havetta (Forecast: ...Read more

Juraj Jakubisko
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June 20, 2009 • 57m

His untamable talent brought him from the East-Slovakian Kojšov to the sunlight of European cinematography. A fierce experimenter ...Read more

Vojtěch Jasný
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June 27, 2009 • 57m

A filmmaker tied to his homeland in way very few people are, and yet forced by circumstance to become, against his will, a runner ...Read more

Dušan Hanák
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July 11, 2009 • 57m

Already during his studies at Prague’s FAMU he had captivated by his short films. The befitting title of his first film, Melanchol...Read more

Vít Olmer
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July 18, 2009 • 57m

He began his career as a successful and sought-after stage and film actor, he advanced even to the boards of the National Theatre....Read more

Ivan Passer
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July 25, 2009 • 57m

Nomad in his directorial and human destiny. His father, farmer, was expropriated by the communist regime, he himself was repeatedl...Read more