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
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
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
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
January 31, 2009 • 57m
Originally a student of architecture, then a draft person, laboratory technician, model, a film extra, script assistant, assistant...Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
March 21, 2009 • 57m
Ironic cinematic magician and analyst of our conscious and unconscious lapses and passion. The original puppeteer training Semafor...Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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