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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic], 1938-02-23

Died: 2020-09-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Ceiling		53
2	1964	Dobrá rada je nad zlato		0
3	1964	Defendant	obhájce Frantisek Horácek	66
4	1964	A Place in the Crowd	(segment "Jak se kalí ocel")	0
5	1964	Hory hory		0
6	1965	Courage for Every Day	Jarduv kolega	59
7	1965	If a Thousand Clarinets	Schulze	73
8	1965	Pension pro svobodné pány		60
9	1966	Pearls of the Deep	Cyclist (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")	60
10	1966	Nobody Will Laugh		70
11	1966	Searching		51
12	1966	Volejte Martina		60
13	1966	Martin Speaking		0
14	1966	An Occasion to Speak	Self	0
15	1966	Closely Watched Trains	Dr. Brabec	72
16	1966	Flám		0
17	1966	Daisies	Jan (voice)	73
18	1967	The Return of the Prodigal Son	Jirí	58
19	1967	Hotel for Strangers	Pot-boy	58
20	1967	Windstorm		0
21	1968	Dita Saxová	Herbert Lagus	62
22	1968	Capricious Summer	Arnoštek	66
23	1968	Crime in the Night Club	Klaun	59
24	1969	The Cremator	Dvorak	78
25	1970	Nevěsta		0
26	1972	Straw Hat		61
27	1972	Sechse kommen durch die Welt	Soldat	50
28	1977	30 Maidens and Pythagoras	profesor matematiky Ludolf	43
29	1978	The Apple Game	MUDr. Josef John	59
30	1979	Minden szerdán	János - államtitkár	0
31	1979	Koportos	A pap	0
32	1979	Those Wonderful Movie Cranks		62
33	1980	Blue Planet	Štěpán Pavlík	20
34	1980	Hra na telo		0
35	1981	Povídka Malostranská	Dr. Krumlovský	80
36	1981	Heart Tremors		53
37	1981	Bulldogs and Cherries	Waiter	44
38	1982	Babička se zbláznila		0
39	1982	Ferat Vampire	Dr. Marek	54
40	1983	Passing Fancy		0
41	1983	Švédská zápalka		45
42	1983	Hearty Greetings from the Globe	Dr. Jánský	69
43	1983	Fandy ó Fandy		43
44	1985	Albert	Dustojník	70
45	1987	Dámská jízda		0
46	1990	Larks on a String	Convict	69
47	1990	Strange Creatures		60
48	1990	The Gentle Barbarian	Doktor	53
49	1990	Martha and I		70
50	1990	Martha and I	Doctor Benda	70
51	1991	The Elementary School	Gynecologist MUDr. Kalaban	73
52	1993	Dr. Hrabal		0
53	1993	The Little Apocalypse	Stan	54
54	1993	Everything I Like	Vasek	63
55	1995	Joint Venture	Prof. Adamec	20
56	1995	How to Deserve a Princess	dvorní malíř	59
57	1995	Too Loud A Solitude	Professor	75
58	1995	Revenge		20
59	1996	Franciska vasárnapjai	államtitkár	0
60	1999	All My Loved Ones	Stein	72
61	1999	Zimní víla	Komorí	0
62	2001	Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte	Pfarrer	0
63	2002	Útek do Budína	hrabě	0
64	2002	The Sunken Cemetery	Doktor Javorski	0
65	2004	Daddy	Self	63
66	2005	Pocta V+W	Self	0
67	2006	A bárány utolsó megkísértése	Leopold Blum	0
68	2007	Teddy Bear	Romanuv otec	59
69	2009	Setkání v Praze, s vraždou	Hořejší	0
70	2009	Operation Dunaj	Oskar Hazuka	50
71	2011	Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions	Self	0
72	2012	The Presence of Arnošt Lustig	Self	0
73	2012	Signál	Prokeš	44
74	2014	Milan Čorba		0
75	2014	Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“	self	0
76	2016	The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street	Self	33
77	2016	To Make a Comedy Is No Fun	Self	60
78	2018	More Than Words	Self	80
79	2018	The Interpreter	Ali Ungár	60
80	2018	CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel	Self	65

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	Veselé příhody z natáčení	Self	0
2	1996	Hospoda	MUDr. Prášek - psychiatr	70
3	1997	Pražský písničkář		0
4	2000	Krásný ztráty	Self	57
5	2000	Příběhy slavných	Self	70
6	2009	Golden Sixties	Self	0
7	2009	Vyprávěj	Professor Sládeček	73

Jiří Menzel

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Television