Vojtěch Jasný

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

2018

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

Self

Movie
2009

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

Self

Movie
2009

Golden Sixties

Self

Tv
2005

Searching for Ester

Himself

Movie
2002

Broken Silence

Director

Tv
2001

Hell on Earth

Director

Movie
1999

Return to Paradise Lost

Director

Movie
1999

Gladys

Director

Movie
1994

Soloist

Thanks

Movie
1991

Why Havel?

Screenplay

Movie
1990

A Boy And His Car

Thanks

Movie
1989

The Lunch Date

Thanks

Movie
1987

The Great Land of Small

Director

Movie
1985

The Peanut Butter Solution

Writer

Movie
1984

Der blinde Richter

Director

Tv
1984

Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen

Director

Movie
1983

Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher

Director

Movie
1982

We

Director

Movie
1982

Am Strand

Director

Movie
1980

The Woman from Sarajevo

Director

Movie
1979

Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil

Director

Movie
1978

Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn

Writer

Movie
1978

Impressions of Herbert von Karajan

Director

Movie
1976

The Clown

Director

Movie
1976

Attempted Flight

Director

Movie
1975

Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März

Director

Movie
1974

Der Kulterer

Director

Movie
1972

Der Leuchtturm

Director

Movie
1972

Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen

Director

Movie
1971

Dogs and People

Story

Movie
1970

Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit

Director

Movie
1970

Czech Rhapsody

Director

Movie
1969

All My Good Countrymen

Screenplay

Movie
1968

Jarní vody

Story

Movie
1966

The Pipes

Director

Movie
1965

Magnetické vlny léčí

Director

Movie
1963

When the Cat Comes

Screenplay

Movie
1961

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin

Director

Movie
1960

I Survived Certain Death

Director

Movie
1958

Desire

Director

Movie
1957

Váhavý střelec

Story

Movie
1957

September Nights

Director

Movie
1956

Opportunity

Screenplay

Movie
1955

Everything Ends Tonight

Director

Movie
1954

Z čínského zápisníku

Director

Movie
1954

Stará čínská opera

Director

Movie
1953

Lidé jednoho srdce

Screenplay

Movie
1952

Neobyčejná léta

Screenplay

Movie
1951

Za život radostný

Director

Movie
1950

It’s Not Always Cloudy

Man with a Gramophone (uncredited)

Movie