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Czech Directors
Jiri MenzelClosely Watched TrainsInterview 1968Interview 1968 EpilogueA Track All Its OwnMenzel and SexualityBohumil Hrabal and MenzelMenzel and the MiracleJerusalem Post ReviewLos Angeles Times ReviewBoston Globe ReviewMilos FormanBlack PeterForman Passer PapousekVera ChytilovaFilmographySomething DifferentDaisiesThrough Womens EyesInterviewWomen in Film21 Deputies Against DaisiesFrom Vera to the PresidentFirst Lady of the New Wave 1First Lady of the New Wave 2Film Analyses and History
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| This atmosphere also nourished the distinctive and versatile talent of Jiri Menzel (b. 1938) - actor, stage director, and film-maker. His film career was closely linked with the name of Bohumil Hrabal, from the story "The Death of Mr. Baltisberger" ("Smrt pana Baltazara" - 1965), another of the episodes in "Pearls at the Bottom", through his to-date most successful film, "Closely Watched Trains" ("Ostre sledovane vlaky" - 1966), to the banned "Larks on a String" ("Skrivanci na niti" - 1969). Hrabal's tragicomic everyday absurdity found a congenial poet in Menzel, who viewed life with an attitude of artful irony, and at the same time with an almost philosophical understanding for the tragicomic non-heroes of his films. Menzel proved equally at home making the film version of twentieth-century Czech classic by Vladislav Vancura, the sagely ironic parable of illusion and reality, "Capricious Summer" ("Rozmarne leto" - 1967). On the other hand, the mystery comedies of Josef Skvorecky, "Crime at the Girl's School" ("Zlocin v divci skole" - 1965), and "Crime at the Nightclub" ("Zlocin v santanu" - 1968), were too different in style and too abstractly literary to provide Menzel enough specific human material for his compassionate irony. (Copyright - The Regents of the University of California) |
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