Zbyněk Brynych
Zbynek Brynych ( born June 13, 1927 in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia; † August 24, 1995 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech film director.
Life and work
Brynych came about various film professions - he was scriptwriter, assistant director, auxiliary director and director for documentaries - and a correspondence course at the Faculty of Film and Television at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ( FAMU ) for film director for feature films. From 1953 to 1955 he worked first in the Army Film Studio, then in the game film studio in 1958 when he made his first feature film, Suburban Romance realized. Two years later he succeeded with Smyk - The abyss against his biggest commercial success. For this production, he was awarded at the International Film Festival of Karlovy Vary with the Director's Award.
The filmed in 1962 strip Transport from Paradise he also earned reputation. Since the late 1960s Brynych also worked in the Federal Republic of Germany and directed a few literary adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque and Franz Kafka, as well as various television productions and numerous episodes of the television series The Commissioner, The Old Man, Derrick and police inspection 1, all productions Helmut Ringelmann 's, for the he worked almost exclusively. In between ( 1973-1976 ), he led in the CSSR in various film and television productions directed. His last film from the early summer of 1994 was also a Ringelmann production. This is the episode idealists of the series The Man Without a shadow.