Jiří Krejčík
Birth : 1918-06-26, Praha
Death : 2013-08-08
History
Nepochybně jedním z nejvýznamnějších režisérů a scénáristů české kinematografie je pražský rodák Jiří Krejčík. Po maturitě se věnoval studiu techniky a během druhé světové války pracoval v barrandovských ateliérech jako statista. Čímž pronikl do světa filmu a brzy zatoužil po vlastní režijní práci. Začínal tvorbou krátkometrážních a reklamních snímků. Spolupracoval také například s výtvarníkem Jiřím Trnkou na hrané části kresleného filmu DÁREK. První hraný celovečerní snímek natočil v r.1947 a byl jím TÝDEN V TICHÉM DOMĚ, na motivy Povídek malostranských od Jana Nerudy. Následoval film o osídlování českého pohraničí po druhé světové válce s názvem VES V POHRANIČÍ. V 50. letech byla jeho práce bohužel poznamenaná dobovou ideologií. Jedná se především o díla NAD NÁMI SVÍTÁ a FRONA. V r.1958 se podílel režií krátkého snímku Glorie na povídkovém filmu O VĚCECH NADPŘIROZENÝCH, kde se pokoušel adaptovat krátké prózy Karla Čapka. Za tento počin byl oceněn na Mezinárodním filmovém festivalu v Locarnu 1959. S příchodem let šedesátých, přichází podle mnohých vrchol Krejčíkovy tvorby, který odstartoval film VYŠŠÍ PRINCIP popisující smutné období heydrichiády, jenž získal také řadu různých ocenění a objevil pozdější velkou hvězdu českého filmu - herečku Janu Brejchovou. K dalším významným dílům patří povídkový snímek ČINTAMANI A PODVODNÍK či satirická komedie SVATBA JAKO ŘEMEN. V r.1967 Krejčík adaptoval hru známého irského dramatika Seana O´Caseyho Bedtime Story pod názvem PENSION PRO SVOBODNÉ PÁNY. Další velký úspěch zaznamenal v r.1979 životopisným filmem BOŽSKÁ EMA o slavné operní pěvkyni Emě Destinnové.
Posledním filmem Jiřího Krejčíka se stal v r.1984 PRODAVAČ HUMORU - satiristický pohled do zákulisí socialistického estrádního průmyslu. Od té doby se jeden z nejuznávanějších domácích filmařů věnuje výhradně práci pro televizi. Režisér Jiří Krejčík už se několikrát také objevil na filmovém plátně. Z jeho maličkých, ovšem nezapomenutelných rolí vyniká především nenasytný pan Karel z Menzelových SLAVNOSTÍ SNĚŽENEK a dále profesor Stárek v retrokomedii Jana Hřebejka PELÍŠKY.
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Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre, she was a writer and an illustrator. She co-created films such as O slavnosti a hostech (1966), Sedmikrásky (1966), Vsichni dobrí rodáci (1969), Pension pro svobodné pány (1968), Valerie a týden divu (1970), Slamený klobouk (1972) and many others. In the 1960s, she was a 'pivot' of the art scene in Prague, attracting artists who were on the threshold of their career, just setting out to find their own form of self-realization. Those who underwent her tutelage remember her forever. Director Vera Chytilová talks to those who knew Ester Krumbachová, who worked with her, befriended her, loved her. She sets off on a search that is to end by answering the question: Who was Ester?
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"Situation of the Street" - An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who frequent it.
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.
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Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are sure that their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
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Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his film New Hyperion, thus continuing his series of comprehensive film documentaries in which he maps out Czech society and its real and imagined elites in his own unique way.
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The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.
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Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope. He has spent a night with the cunning seductress Angela. Full of remorse and dreading the ruin of his reputation, he tries to get rid of her, fearing that his pal Halibut or his landlady Miss Mossie might get to know. Angela sees her chance, turns gold-digger and does not leave before relieving John of a considerable amount of money.
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Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope. He has spent a night with the cunning seductress Angela. Full of remorse and dreading the ruin of his reputation, he tries to get rid of her, fearing that his pal Halibut or his landlady Miss Mossie might get to know. Angela sees her chance, turns gold-digger and does not leave before relieving John of a considerable amount of money.
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A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.
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A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.
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During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
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During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
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Czech comedy fantasy directed by Jiri Krejcik et al.
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Czech comedy fantasy directed by Jiri Krejcik et al.
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A comedy film taking an ironic view of the bourgeois period prior to the First World War.
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The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.
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Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as the Citizen Kane of animation.
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