Vojtěch Jasný
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.
Fotos
Filmes (49)
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018 · Self
Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
2009 · Self
Searching for Ester
2005 · Himself
Hell on Earth
2001 · Director, Screenplay
Return to Paradise Lost
1999 · Director, Screenplay
Gladys
1999 · Director, Writer
Soloist
1994 · Thanks
Why Havel?
1991 · Screenplay, Director
A Boy And His Car
1990 · Thanks
The Lunch Date
1989 · Thanks
The Great Land of Small
1987 · Director
The Peanut Butter Solution
1985 · Writer
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
1984 · Writer, Director
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
1983 · Director
We
1982 · Director
Am Strand
1982 · Director
The Woman from Sarajevo
1980 · Director
Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil
1979 · Director
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
1978 · Writer, Director
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
1978 · Director, Writer
The Clown
1976 · Screenplay, Director
Attempted Flight
1976 · Director, Writer
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
1975 · Director
Der Kulterer
1974 · Director, Writer
Der Leuchtturm
1972 · Adaptation, Director
Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
1972 · Director
Dogs and People
1971 · Story, Screenplay
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
1970 · Director
Czech Rhapsody
1970 · Director, Screenplay, Story
All My Good Countrymen
1969 · Screenplay, Director, Story
Jarní vody
1968 · Story
The Pipes
1966 · Director, Screenplay
Magnetické vlny léčí
1965 · Director
When the Cat Comes
1963 · Screenplay, Director, Screenstory
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
1961 · Director
I Survived Certain Death
1960 · Director
Desire
1958 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Váhavý střelec
1957 · Story
September Nights
1957 · Director, Screenplay
Opportunity
1956 · Screenplay, Director
Everything Ends Tonight
1955 · Director
Stará čínská opera
1954 · Director, Camera Operator
Z čínského zápisníku
1954 · Director, Camera Operator
Lidé jednoho srdce
1953 · Screenplay, Director, Camera Operator
Neobyčejná léta
1952 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Story
Za život radostný
1951 · Screenplay, Director, Story
It’s Not Always Cloudy
1950 · Man with a Gramophone (uncredited), Director of Photography, Screenplay, Director, Editor
Věděli si rady
1949 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Story
Milos Forman: Portrait
· Director
