Vojtěch Jasný

Directing·Nov 30, 1925·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.

Film	Credit
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel2018 · Self	Self
LLife and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny2009 · Self	Self
Searching for Ester2005 · Himself	Himself
HHell on Earth2001 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Return to Paradise Lost1999 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Gladys1999 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Why Havel?1991 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Great Land of Small1987 · Director	Director
The Peanut Butter Solution1985 · Writer	Writer
BBis später - ich muss mich erschiessen1984 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher1983 · Director	Director
We1982 · Director	Director
Am Strand1982 · Director	Director
The Woman from Sarajevo1980 · Director	Director
DDie Stühle des Herrn Szmil1979 · Director	Director
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn1978 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan1978 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Clown1976 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Attempted Flight1976 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
DDas Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März1975 · Director	Director
Der Kulterer1974 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Der Leuchtturm1972 · Director	Director
NNasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen1972 · Director	Director
Dogs and People1971 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit1970 · Director	Director
Czech Rhapsody1970 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
All My Good Countrymen1969 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Pipes1966 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Magnetické vlny léčí1965 · Director	Director
When the Cat Comes1963 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin1961 · Director	Director
I Survived Certain Death1960 · Director	Director
Desire1958 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
SSeptember Nights1957 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
OOpportunity1956 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
EEverything Ends Tonight1955 · Director	Director
SStará čínská opera1954 · Director	Director
ZZ čínského zápisníku1954 · Director	Director
LLidé jednoho srdce1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
NNeobyčejná léta1952 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
ZZa život radostný1951 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
It’s Not Always Cloudy1950 · Man with a Gramophone (uncredited), Director of Photography, Screenplay, Director	Man with a Gramophone (uncredited), Director of Photography, Screenplay, Director
VVěděli si rady1949 · Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay	Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay
MMilos Forman: PortraitDirector	Director