🎬Jiří Menzel

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	I Served the King of England (2007)	Director / Writer		5
2	Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)	Director / Writer		7.5
3	All My Loved Ones (1999)	Stein	-	-
4	Everything I Like (1993)	Vasek		4
5	The Elementary School (1991)	Gynecologist MUDr. Kalaban		5
6	My Sweet Little Village (1985)	Director / Writer		6
7	The Snowdrop Festival (1984)	Director / Writer		8
8	Ferat Vampire (1982)	Dr. Marek		7
9	Cutting It Short (1981)	Director / Writer		6
10	Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)	Director / Writer		3
11	The Apple Game (1978)	MUDr. Josef John		4
12	Secluded, Near Woods (1976)	Director / Writer		4
13	Who Looks for Gold? (1974)	Director / Writer	-	-
14	The Cremator (1969)	Dvorak		6
15	Larks on a String (1969)	Director / Writer		5
16	Capricious Summer (1968)	Director / Writer		6
17	The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)	Jirí		3
18	Daisies (1966)	Jan (voice)		6.8
19	Closely Watched Trains (1966)	Director / Writer		4.3
20	Pearls of the Deep (1966)	Director / Writer		5
21	Searching (1966)	-		4
22	If a Thousand Clarinets (1965)	Schulze		5
23	Courage for Every Day (1965)	Jarduv kolega		3
24	Something Different (1963)	Director / Writer		3