Jiří Menzel
Actor | Director | Writer | Screenplay | Adaptation
Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Date of Birth: Feb 23, 1938
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