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Filmmaker · Czechia

František Čáp

Died in 1972

František Čáp was born on 7 December 1913 in Čachovice. After secondary school in Tábor and the forestry school in Písek, he joined Lucernafilm at nineteen, where he learned every trade of film, wrote screenplays for Haas, Frič or Vávra, and became at the end of the thirties the youngest director in the country. Accused in 1948 of having offended a workers' jury, he emigrated in 1949 to West Germany, then worked in Slovenia, settled in Portorož in 1957 and died in Ankaran in January 1972.

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