Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

Overview

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. For Jasny, life and cinema are inseparable concepts. By visiting friends who still live in Life and Film Jasny first person will have their own history and some decisive events in his life: the Nazi invasion and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exile and his arrival in New York years later.

Cast

Vojtěch Jasný

Self

Rock Demers

Self

Miloš Forman

Self

René Böll

Self

Josef Slimácek

Self

Robert Lantz

Self