Vojtěch Jasný

Known for DirectingBorn 1925-11-30Died 2019-11-15Kelc, 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.Read more

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Der blinde Richter

Dogs and People

Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit

Stará čínská opera

Lidé jednoho srdce

Za život radostný

Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher

Der Leuchtturm

Neobyčejná léta

Věděli si rady

Searching for Ester

Gladys

Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen

Attempted Flight

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin

All My Good Countrymen

Broken Silence

Czech Rhapsody

The Lunch Date

The Woman from Sarajevo

Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

Hell on Earth

The Great Land of Small

I Survived Certain Death

Opportunity

When the Cat Comes

It’s Not Always Cloudy

Magnetické vlny léčí

Desire

Váhavý střelec

The Clown

September Nights

The Pipes

Return to Paradise Lost

The Peanut Butter Solution

Everything Ends Tonight

Der Kulterer

Jarní vody

We

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

Golden Sixties

Soloist

Why Havel?

A Boy And His Car

Am Strand

Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil

Impressions of Herbert von Karajan