Jiřà Sequens
Jiří Sequens ( born April 23, 1922 in Brno, † January 21, 2008 in Prague) was a Czech film director and screenwriter.
Life
Sequens studied acting at the Conservatoire in Brno and played at theaters in Brno and Prague. He then studied 1946/47, Director at WGIK in Moscow with Sergei Gerasimov and Sergei Eisenstein and then, supported by a UNESCO scholarship, 6 months on IDHEC in Paris. After his return to Czechoslovakia in 1949, he turned his first short films. In 1951 he gained his first feature film The way to happiness, and in this propaganda film, the collectivization of agriculture, the sought "happiness" represents. With crime on the Wind Mountain began in 1955 his passion for the thriller genre. In 1957/58 accompanied Sequens and his cameraman Rudolf Milič various Czech merchant ships traveling to Africa and China; from the rotated material created several short films and the feature documentary Bratr Ocean (1958).
With the assassination, his film about the preparations and consequences of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, in 1965 he took part in the IV Moscow International Film Festival. The film won ex aequo with Yves Le ciel sur la tête Ciampis, the main prize and made Sequens known internationally. His next two films he made in Greece; the first of the two, Epitaph for friend and foe with Günther Stoll in the lead role, playing in the post-war Berlin and was commercially in Greece a great success.
Even more successful was his next shot in the home work, the 13 - part TV series, old criminal cases (1968 /69), in which the investigator to Police Superintendent Vacátko ( Jaroslav Marvan ) and the inspectors Mrázek ( František Filipovský ), Bruzek (Josef Bláha ) and Bouše (Josef Vinklář ) in Prague in the 1920s and 1930s sOLVE CRIMES. The television series followed in the years 1970 and 1971, four movie sequels and in 1972, another TV movie.
His next TV work were the 30 episodes of the criminal cases of Major Zeman ( 1974-1979 ). The (supposedly given by the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior in order) series follows chronologically from 1945 to 1973 the career of (originally invented by Oldrich Zelezny ) police Jan Zeman ( Vladimír Brabec ) in his fight against criminal gangs, white-collar criminals and, remarkably often, saboteurs and " counter-revolutionaries ". The propagandistic aspects of the series - it is in the gambling in 1967 Episode 24 jugglers ( Klauni ) a literary dissident reactionary culprit - led after the Velvet Revolution to many criticisms of Sequens. In 2000, the reradiation of Zeman series on Czech television provoked harsh protests and an apology from the broadcaster, but also very high ratings. In the meantime, apply the criminal cases of Major Zeman in the Czech Republic as a cult series, with fan clubs and successful DVD releases, and individual episodes ( so Episode 26 The Fountain ) shaped a whole generation of television.
In addition to his film work taught Sequens 1971-1990 at FAMU in Prague. In 1981, he won with the film Ta chvíle, ten Okamžik at the XII. Moscow International Film Festival for a special price. His last work was in 1997 a four-part resume his nostalgic old criminal cases, this time played in Brno.