Vojtech Jasny
Film director
1925 –
Who is Vojtech Jasny?
Vojtěch Jasný is a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat.
An active and influential 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 '80's. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts and The New York Film Academy.
Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat, one of Jasny's most popular films, 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 in visually stunning, colorful and musical scenes. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
Also among Jasný's notable works is Všichni dobří rodáci /All My Good Countrymen, a story centering around 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.
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- Born
- Nov 30, 1925
Kelč - Also known as
- Vojta Jasny
- Vojtěch Jasný
- Vojtech Jasný
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- Profession
- Education
- Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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on July 23, 2013
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