Name
Jiří Menzel
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-02-23
Deathday
2020-09-05 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.
Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.
Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.
Known For
6.5
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the riv...
7.4
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village...
6.8
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter...
5.9
In 1947 Prague, Holocaust survivor Dita lives in a hostel for orphans, acting as a prot...
5.2
Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armi...
7.215
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprent...
6.63
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private C...
7.5
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area c...
- 1966 Closely Watched Trains as Dr. Brabec
- 1990 Larks on a String as Convict
- 2009 Operation Dunaj as Oskar Hazuka
- 1972 Sechse kommen durch die Welt as Soldat
- 2005 Pocta V+W as Self
- 1968 Capricious Summer as Arnoštek
- 1982 Ferat Vampire as Dr. Marek
- 1980 Hra na telo
- 1969 The Cremator as Dvorak
- 1978 The Apple Game as MUDr. Josef John
- 1979 Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
- 1962 Ceiling
- 1967 The Return of the Prodigal Son as Jirí
- 1964 Hory hory
- 1964 A Place in the Crowd as (segment "Jak se kalí ocel")
- 1979 Minden szerdán as János - államtitkár
- 1964 Dobrá rada je nad zlato
- 1966 Searching
- 1966 Pearls of the Deep as Cyclist (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")
- 1965 Pension pro svobodné pány
- 1966 Volejte Martina
- 1965 If a Thousand Clarinets as Schulze
- 1966 Martin Speaking
- 1966 Flám
- 1967 Windstorm
- 1990 The Gentle Barbarian as Doktor
- 1995 Too Loud A Solitude as Professor
- 1985 Albert as Dustojník
- 1983 Hearty Greetings from the Globe as Dr. Jánský
- 1970 Nevěsta
- 1972 Straw Hat
- 1995 Joint Venture as Prof. Adamec
- 2014 Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“ as self
- 2004 Daddy as Self
- 1983 Fandy ó Fandy
- 2012 The Presence of Arnošt Lustig as Self
- 2012 Signál as Prokeš
- 1983 Passing Fancy
- 2014 Milan Čorba
- 1995 Vengeance Is Mine as Director
- 1980 Koportos as A pap
- 1990 Martha and I as Doctor Benda
- 1981 Heart Tremors
- 1993 Dr. Hrabal
- 1968 Dita Saxová as Herbert Lagus
- 1966 An Occasion to Speak as Self
- 2016 The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street as Self
- 1993 Everything I Like as Vasek
- 1966 Nobody Will Laugh
- 1999 All My Loved Ones as Stein
- 1965 Courage for Every Day as Jarduv kolega
- 2007 Teddy Bear as Romanuv otec
- 2016 To Make a Comedy Is No Fun as Self
- 1967 Hotel for Strangers as Pot-boy
- 1993 The Little Apocalypse as Stan
- 2002 The Sunken Cemetery as Doktor Javorski
- 1995 How to Deserve a Princess as dvorní malíř
- 2018 The Interpreter as Ali Ungár
- 1968 Crime in the Night Club as Klaun
- 2006 Zimní víla as Komorí
- 1977 30 Maidens and Pythagoras as profesor matematiky Ludolf
- 1983 Švédská zápalka
- 1966 Daisies as Jan (voice)
- 2011 Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions as Self
- 1980 Blue Planet as Štěpán Pavlík
- 1981 Bulldogs and Cherries as Waiter
- 1964 Defendant as obhájce Frantisek Horácek
- 2018 CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel as Self
- 1982 Babička se zbláznila
- 1987 Dámská jízda
- 1981 Povídka Malostranská as Dr. Krumlovský
- 2009 Setkání v Praze, s vraždou as Hořejší
- 1991 The Elementary School as Gynecologist MUDr. Kalaban
- 2002 Útek do Budína as hrabě
- 1996 Franciska vasárnapjai as államtitkár
- 2006 A bárány utolsó megkísértése as Leopold Blum
- 2001 As Rita Hayworth's Grandfather Loved as Pfarrer
- 1990 Strange Creatures
- 1991 Tady vím, proč jsem as Self
- 1989 Stvoření světa
- 1990 Zvonokosy as Vincek
- 1987 Run, He Is Coming!
- 1996 Hospoda ( 52 episodes ) as MUDr. Prášek - psychiatr
- 1997 Pražský písničkář ( 5 episodes )
- 2000 Příběhy slavných ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 Golden Sixties ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1988 Veselé příhody z natáčení ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2000 Krásný ztráty ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 Vyprávěj ( 2 episodes ) as Professor Sládeček
- 2006 Slnko v sieti ( 1 episode )
- 1996 Draculův švagr ( 1 episode )
- 2018 More Than Words ( 4 episodes ) as Self
