Jana Boková

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

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Place of Birth

Prague, Czechoslovakia

Jana Boková

Biography

Boková (born in 1948) is a Czech film director. Born in Prague, she left Czechoslovakia at the time of the Soviet invasion in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne. She then lived in the United States and worked as a contributing photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, and subsequently became a film student at the National Film School in England debuting as a film director in 1975 with the critically acclaimed Militia Battlefield. She made films regularly for the BBC arts series Omnibus and Arena, winning many international awards. She wrote and directed the ...

Acting

2005

Night Watch

as Lady Cocaina

Production

2000

Before Night Falls

as Documentation & Support

1986

Paradise Hotel

as Director

1975

1998

Diary for a Tale

as Director

1984

Sunset People

as Director

1977

1974

Jokey

as Director

1972

A Cette Minute

as Director

1973

Déjà Vu

as Director

1979

I Look Like This

as Director

1977

1978

Living Room

as Producer

1978

Living Room

as Director

1980

Quinn Running

as Director

1978

1986

1980

Blue Moon

as Director

1980

Blue Moon

as Producer

2003

Eric Clapton and Friends

as Director of Photography

1990

Havana

as Director

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