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Filmmaker · Czechia

Jiří Menzel

Died in 2020

Jiří Menzel was born on 23 February 1938 in Prague, the son of the writer, translator and playwright Josef Menzel. Rejected for theatre directing, he studied directing at the Prague film school in the class of Otakar Vávra, graduating in 1962, together with Věra Chytilová and Evald Schorm. A filmmaker, actor and theatre director, he received the Czech Lion for his body of work in 1996 and died in Prague on 5 September 2020.

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