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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 Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) and The New York Film Academy (NYFA).
Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat 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. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Also among Jasný's works is Všichni dobří rodáci /All My Good Countrymen (1968), a story centering on 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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16 March 1984
Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque aboute
01 January 1956
A military film of marital infidelity in which furloughs pose danger not only to the army but also to a soldier's family.
11 January 1982
In the 26th century the inhabitants of Utopia have so lost their individuality, which varies in number.
18 November 1960
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.
30 August 1966
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife.
14 January 1976
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism.
01 January 1976
The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites.
23 June 1975
A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry.
30 December 1970
An elderly lady has a trauma and simply must celebrate Christmas every day of the year, to the dismay of her family and relatives.
01 October 1991
The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian Jiří Voráč.
19 May 1961
Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative.
01 September 2009
After being one of the most successful filmmakers in Europe in the sixties, Vojtech Jasny (Czech Republic, 1925) lives in a small apartment in New York.
15 March 1970
Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.
20 September 1963
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.
16 May 1978
Rückkehr (Return) consists of two short films inspired by the director's youth: "Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn" (The return of the old lord) is a nostalgic dive into the memories of an old man who entrusts his grandson with stories of his youth.
01 January 1982
The film tells the fantastic story of a young man who can fly.
25 December 1958
A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments.
04 July 1969
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
06 December 1985
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.
18 February 1955
The adventurous story of a young soldier, lance corporal Milan Pazdera, who falls in love with a beautiful young girl at a party who claims to be in the countryside on medical leave.
16 September 2018
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
06 March 1974
A quiet, unassuming man sentenced to a long term in a maximum-security prison uses his time to study and begins to write cryptic short stories.
03 December 1989
A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
03 September 1971
The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river.
15 October 1950
A film about life in the Czech borderlands after the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.
29 November 2001
From Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation comes Broken Silence, a series of five films about human courage, heroism, and triumph over intense adversities during World War II.
02 July 1980
The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.
12 June 1990
Playing hooky from school, Tony, a student/chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, spends the afternoon at Central Park's Sailboat lake and retrieves a remote control device left behind by a pair of sailboat racers.
18 June 1987
While visiting their grandparents in the Québec countryside, two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
07 June 1957
The hesitant shooter becomes a timid young man who only the war will make a real man.
24 May 1957
The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in line.
01 January 1983
The story of François Perret-Latour, a formerly successful banker and member of Parisian high society.
30 March 1978
Reveals the life and current (1978) muses of Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan.
27 May 1999
A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.
25 December 1965
Detective Biddle arrives in a small American town to warn the local mayor Banks about a fraudulent healer.
25 October 1972
A psychological and existential study of a prisoner charged with guarding an isolated lighthouse. If he makes it through two years, the remainder of his sentence for manslaughter in a bar brawl will be pardoned.
29 May 1994
A concert pianist falls in love with himself in this modern retelling of the Narcissus myth.
12 April 2005
Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave.
30 August 1968
Sanin, an aging Russian nobleman, recalls his unfulfilled love for a simple girl with whom he fell in love during his youthful travels, but left her for a short-lived love affair with a selfish high society beauty.
