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

Film

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

Television

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	72