Jiřà Menzel
Jiří Menzel ( born February 23, 1938 in Prague) is a Czech director and actor. He is one of the main figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave, which made headlines worldwide in the 1960s for attention.
Life
Menzel was born as the son of children's author Josef Menzel. During his education at the Prague film school FAMU from 1957 to 1962 he made his first short films Domy z panelu (1960) and Umřel nám pan Foerster (1962). He then worked until 1965 in the newsreel. A tour with the theater group " La Madragola " led him in 1967 by Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries. Menzel staged at theaters in Stockholm, Basel and Bochum.
His film debut as an actor he had in 1962 in Strop by Věra Chytilová. Menzel has since worked both as an actor and director in film and television productions. His comedy OSTRE sledované vlaky (1966 ) was awarded at the International Film Festival Mannheim -Heidelberg and was awarded an Oscar, his later film Vesničko má, středisková (1985 ) was also nominated oscar. Menzel Comedy Rozmarne léto (1968 ) was awarded to the film festival in Karlovy Vary.
For literary sources Menzel often served at his compatriot Bohumil Hrabal; as in 1969 he whose " Larks on a String " filmed, this satirical film was banned after the suppression of the Prague Spring. It was only in 1990 shown to an international audience at the Berlinale and was awarded the Golden Bear. Menzel was in 1970 occupied by a prohibition in the film and turned to the theater; until today he is regarded as seminal figure of his home stage in Prague's Vinohrady district.
With Postřižiny (1980 ), a story from the Bohemia of the 1920s, he had great success with the public. Several times he played in the 1970s and 80s in Hungarian and German films, including Gyula Maar Felhőjáték (1983) and Krzysztof Zanussi The long conversation with the bird (1990).
In the 1990s, Menzel initially tried unsuccessfully to film adaptation of Hrabal's I Served the King. It was not until 2005 he was (among by Karel Kachyňa ) begin with the shooting, after the failure of several competing projects. The film, starring Julia Jentsch and Oldrich Kaiser in the leading roles, premiered in November 2006 and a year later with the Bohemian lion, the national film award of the Czech Republic, award-winning.