Vojtěch Jasný
Directing
1925-11-30 · Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Vojtěch Jasný (born 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia. An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968. Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) and The New York Film Academy (NYFA). Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat is an allegorical fable about a magical cat that comes to a small Czech town and causes the underlying nature of the townspeople to be revealed. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Also among Jasný's works is Všichni dobří rodáci /All My Good Countrymen (1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968.
Filmography
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018 · Movie
Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
2009 · Movie
Golden Sixties
2009 · Series
Searching for Ester
2005 · Movie
Broken Silence
2002 · Series
Hell on Earth
2001 · Movie
Return to Paradise Lost
1999 · Movie
Gladys
1999 · Movie
Soloist
1994 · Movie
Why Havel?
1991 · Movie
A Boy And His Car
1990 · Movie
The Lunch Date
1989 · Movie
The Great Land of Small
1987 · Movie
The Peanut Butter Solution
1985 · Movie
Der blinde Richter
1984 · Series
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
1984 · Movie
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
1983 · Movie
We
1982 · Movie
Am Strand
1982 · Movie
The Woman from Sarajevo
1980 · Movie
Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil
1979 · Movie
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
1978 · Movie
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
1978 · Movie
The Clown
1976 · Movie
Attempted Flight
1976 · Movie
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
1975 · Movie
Der Kulterer
1974 · Movie
Der Leuchtturm
1972 · Movie
Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
1972 · Movie
Dogs and People
1971 · Movie
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
1970 · Movie
Czech Rhapsody
1970 · Movie
All My Good Countrymen
1969 · Movie
Jarní vody
1968 · Movie
The Pipes
1966 · Movie
Magnetické vlny léčí
1965 · Movie
When the Cat Comes
1963 · Movie
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
1961 · Movie
I Survived Certain Death
1960 · Movie
Desire
1958 · Movie
Váhavý střelec
1957 · Movie
September Nights
1957 · Movie
Opportunity
1956 · Movie
Everything Ends Tonight
1955 · Movie
Z čínského zápisníku
1954 · Movie
Stará čínská opera
1954 · Movie
Lidé jednoho srdce
1953 · Movie
Neobyčejná léta
1952 · Movie
Za život radostný
1951 · Movie
It’s Not Always Cloudy
1950 · Movie
Věděli si rady
1949 · Movie
Milos Forman: Portrait
Movie