
Known for
Directing
Born
November 30, 1925
Birthplace
Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Died
November 15, 2019 (aged 93)
Vojtěch Jasný (born 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia.
An active 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 1980s. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Milo...
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Director
2018
2009
2009
2005
as Himself
2002
2001
Director, Screenplay
1999
Director, Screenplay
1999
Director, Writer
1994
Thanks
1991
Screenplay, Director
1990
Thanks
1989
Thanks
1987
Director
1985
1984
1984
Director, Writer
1983
Director
1982
Director
1982
Director
1980
Director
1979
Director
1978
Writer, Director
1978
Director, Writer
1976
Director, Screenplay