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Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel

Acting
23 Feb 1938
05 Sept 2020
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Biography

Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

Also Known As

Jirí Menzel, Jiri Menzel, 이리 멘젤, 이리 멘첼

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