Jindřich Polák

Jindřich Polák ( born May 5, 1925 in Prague; † August 22, 2003 ) was a Czech film director. The focus of his work was in the range of children's films.

He started his film career as an assistant director Otakar Vavra in the late 1940s. This was followed by a variety of feature films and television series on their own. Important are mainly directed by him series Pan Tau, Clown Ferdinand, Lucy, the terror of the road, Visitors and Katja and the ghosts that often arose in co-production with transmitters of the FRG or the GDR and standards of children's television or - films were. Many of these were written by the screenwriters Ota Hofman. Polák also took repeated trips to the science fiction genre, as in Clown Ferdinand and the rocket, Ikarie XB 1, the satire Zitra vstanu a opařím se čajem and the television series The Visitor. In 1968, the film Nebeští jezdci (German: " Heaven Help " ) about Czech pilots in the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War, which was not to be listed until 1990.

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