FILM DIRECTOR

Vojtěch Jasný

1925 - 2019

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Vojtěch Jasný (30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director, screenwriter and professor who has written and directed over 50 films. Jasný made feature and documentary films in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, USA & Canada, and was a notable figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best remembered for his movies The Cassandra Cat and All My Compatriots, both of which won prizes at Cannes Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vojtěch Jasný has received more than 86,804 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Vojtěch Jasný is the 760th most popular film director (up from 828th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 473rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Vojtěch Jasný ranks 760 out of 2,041. Before him are Erik Balling, Paul Scheuring, Stephen Daldry, Terence Fisher, Ritwik Ghatak, and Roman Karmen. After him are Mark Zakharov, Dennis Dugan, Nana Jorjadze, Chris Carter, Gustav Machatý, and Todd Phillips.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Vojtěch Jasný ranks 248. Before him are Philippe Jaccottet, Ernst Jandl, Shehu Shagari, John Neville, Yuli Daniel, and Ritwik Ghatak. After him are Néstor Rossi, José Freire Falcão, Eugene Garfield, Carmen Martín Gaite, Abdelsalam Majali, and Mohammed Mzali. Among people deceased in 2019, Vojtěch Jasný ranks 240. Before him are Theo Adam, Robert Waseige, Janet Asimov, Eva Mozes Kor, David Hedison, and Anémone. After him are Mark Zakharov, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pedro Manfredini, Jacques Dupont, Jurica Jerković, and Omero Antonutti.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vojtěch Jasný ranks 478 out of 1,200. Before him are Zdeněk Zikán (1937), Paulina Porizkova (1965), Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (1782), Ivan Passer (1933), Oldřich Duras (1882), and Prince Karl of Auersperg (1814). After him are Václav Brožík (1851), Gustav Machatý (1901), Miroslav Hroch (1932), Vlastimil Kopecký (1912), Ladislav Ženíšek (1904), and Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Vojtěch Jasný ranks 18. Before him are Harun Farocki (1944), Otakar Vávra (1911), Karel Lamač (1897), Karl Freund (1890), František Vláčil (1924), and Ivan Passer (1933). After him are Gustav Machatý (1901), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), Jan Němec (1936), Karel Kachyňa (1924), Oldřich Lipský (1924), and Martin Frič (1902).

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Filmography

When the Cat Comes
Director
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.
Sep 20o 19637 / 10
All My Good Countrymen
Director
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
Jul 4o 19697.8 / 10
We
Director
In the 26th century the inhabitants of Utopia have so lost their individuality, which varies in number. They live in glass houses (this was written before the invention of television), which allows the political police, called “Keepers” can easily supervise them. They all wear the same uniform and usually turn to each other or as a ”cipher-so” or "UNIFEM" (uniform). They feed on artificial food and rest hour marching in fours in a row the anthem of the One State, pouring out of the loudspeakers. As they are allowed to put a break on the hour (known as the ”sexy time“), draw the curtains of their glass houses. At the head of the One State is one called The Benefactor, which are replaced every year the whole population, usually unanimously. The guiding principle of the State is that happiness and freedom are incompatible.
Jan 11o 19824.9 / 10