Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 30, 1925
Died
Nov 15, 2019
Place of Birth
Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Credits
52 titles
Vojtěch Jasný
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Self
Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
Self
Golden Sixties
Self
Searching for Ester
Himself
Broken Silence
Director
Hell on Earth
Director
Return to Paradise Lost
Director
Gladys
Director
Soloist
Thanks
Why Havel?
Screenplay
A Boy And His Car
Thanks
The Lunch Date
Thanks
The Great Land of Small
Director
The Peanut Butter Solution
Writer
Der blinde Richter
Director
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
Director
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
Director
We
Director
Am Strand
Director
The Woman from Sarajevo
Director
Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil
Director
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
Writer
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
Director
The Clown
Director
Attempted Flight
Director
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
Director
Der Kulterer
Director
Der Leuchtturm
Director
Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
Director
Dogs and People
Story
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
Director
Czech Rhapsody
Director
All My Good Countrymen
Screenplay
Jarní vody
Story
The Pipes
Director
Magnetické vlny léčí
Director
When the Cat Comes
Screenplay
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Director
I Survived Certain Death
Director
Desire
Director
Váhavý střelec
Story
September Nights
Director
Opportunity
Screenplay
Everything Ends Tonight
Director
Z čínského zápisníku
Director
Stará čínská opera
Director
Lidé jednoho srdce
Screenplay
Neobyčejná léta
Screenplay
Za život radostný
Director
It’s Not Always Cloudy
Man with a Gramophone (uncredited)