Director

Jiří Menzel

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Directed movies: 25Directed series: 0All crew credits: 28

TMDB ID: 11720

IMDb ID: nm0579954

Known for: Acting

Born: February 23, 1938

Died: September 5, 2020

Age: 82

Place of birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 2020

Years active: 61

Average TMDB rating: 6.75

Wikidata: Q352030

Also known as

Jirí Menzel • Jiri Menzel • 이리 멘젤 • 이리 멘첼

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Biography

Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was 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. His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.