František Vláčil

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-02-19 (75 years old)

Deathday

1999-01-27

Place of Birth

Cesky Tesin, Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic

František Vláčil

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia František Vláčil (February 19, 1924, Český Těšín – January 28, 1999, Prague) was a Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist. Between 1945 and 1950, he studied esthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno. Later he worked in various groups and ateliers (e.g. on animated films), but his main area became played film. His films are well known for extraordinarily high art quality. Vláčil was awarded many film prizes like the Prize of the International Film Festival 1998 in Karlovy Vary or the Czech Lion Prize for his longstanding contribution to world film culture.

Production

1951

1951

1968

1967

1950

Cure N. 2357

as Director

1970

Adelheid

as Director

1960

No Entrance

as Director

1960

No Entrance

as Screenstory

1960

No Entrance

as Screenplay

1960

The White Dove

as Director

1962

The Devil's Trap

as Director

1967

Marketa Lazarová

as Screenplay

1967

1968

1956

1970

Adelheid

as Screenplay

1951

1958

1952

Nový průmysl

as Screenplay

1952

1986

Shades of Fern

as Director

1982

Serpent's Poison

as Director

1985

Albert

as Director

1958

Clouds of Glass

as Director

1988

Magician

as Director

1975

Sirius

as Director

1954

Modrý den

as Idea

1954

Modrý den

as Screenplay

1954

Remembrance

as Director

1954

Remembrance

as Screenplay

1974

1974

1955

Tank Brigade

as Art Direction

1960

The White Dove

as Screenplay

1958

Clouds of Glass

as Screenplay

1972

1956

1956

1956

1972

1982

Serpent's Poison

as Screenplay

1986

Shades of Fern

as Screenplay

1991

1991

1991

Pražský Odysseus

as Screenplay

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