Vojtěch Jasný
Directing
Born 1925-11-30
Died 2019-11-15
Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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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.
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Filmography
Directing
40 credits
The Pipes
Neobyčejná léta
All My Good Countrymen
When the Cat Comes
Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil
Broken Silence
Der blinde Richter
Věděli si rady
Desire
We
The Great Land of Small
Return to Paradise Lost
The Clown
I Survived Certain Death
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Magnetické vlny léčí
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
Der Kulterer
Why Havel?
Hell on Earth
September Nights
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
The Woman from Sarajevo
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
Z čínského zápisníku
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
Attempted Flight
Lidé jednoho srdce
Everything Ends Tonight
Der Leuchtturm
Milos Forman: Portrait
Za život radostný
Opportunity
Stará čínská opera
Gladys
Am Strand
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
Czech Rhapsody
Writing
26 credits
The Pipes
Neobyčejná léta
All My Good Countrymen
When the Cat Comes
Věděli si rady
The Peanut Butter Solution
Desire
Return to Paradise Lost
The Clown
It’s Not Always Cloudy
Jarní vody
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
Dogs and People
Der Kulterer
Why Havel?
Hell on Earth
September Nights
Váhavý střelec
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
Attempted Flight
Lidé jednoho srdce
Za život radostný
Opportunity
Gladys
Czech Rhapsody
Acting
8 credits
Golden Sixties
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Searching for Ester
It’s Not Always Cloudy
Z čínského zápisníku
Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
Der Leuchtturm
Stará čínská opera
Other credits
3 credits
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