Petr cepek biography of michael

  • Michael Kunze was born on 9 November in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic].
  • Peter Czejke was born on 2 April in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic].
  • Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September ) is a Czech retired film director, animator, writer, playwright and artist.

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    Life Sentence: Dreams of Captivity and Freedom in Jan Švankmajer’s Šílení

    Issue 44

    Šílení (Lunacy, ) is Jan Švankmajer’s fifth feature, and stands as the director’s finest and most penetrating foray yet into the forest of contradictions and cruelties that constitutes Western society today. Set in France but with language in Czech, and opening in the present day only to slip into the late 18th century and back, here even the most basic of narrative conventions appear disconcertingly decentred – despite the fact that Šílení may be the closest Švankmajer has ever come to making a traditional arthouse film. After more than 40 years of filmmaking as a ‘militant surrealist’ and over 30 incendiary, distinctly ‘authored’ films, Švankmajer has not resigned his devotion to dreams, irrationality and black humour. But perhaps inevitably (for an enthusiast at least) it is what is new and different in this latest entry that first catches the eye. There is the obscene, life-lusting

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    Summary

    Thanks to its two leading creative lights – Zdeňek Svěrák and Ladislav Smoljak – during the s, Prague’s Divadlo Járy Cimrman theatre group ended up mounting three “Cimrman-esque“ feature films. The faux-biography Jára Cimrman ležící, spící (Jára Cimrman, Lying Asleep, ), detective comedy Rozpuštěný a vypuštěný (Dissolved and Discharged, ) and the tragicomedy about the goings-on in a small theatre group Nejistá sezóna (Uncertain Season, ). Together, these offer the embodiment of the very Czech phenomenon – a fictional genius of all stripes and talents. The film, in which Smoljak serves as co-writer and director, and Svěrák as co-writer, makes use of numerous motifs from the Cimrman theatrical plays, primarily from the detective comedy Vražda v salónním coupé (Murder in a Parlour Car Compartment, ) which, like many plays in this group, also features a section with a formal report presenting the life of Jára Cimrman. Rozpuštěný a vypuštěný (Dissolved and Discharged) works ind

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    Jan Švankmajer

    Czech filmskapare (born )

    Doctor honoris causa

    Jan Švankmajer

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    Born () 4 September (age&#;90)

    Prague, Czechoslovakia

    EducationTheatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
    Known&#;forFilmmaker in animation, puppetry and live-action; writer, playwright and surrealist
    Styleinformel, surrealism, tactilism, art brut
    SpouseEva Švankmajerová
    Children2
    AwardsCzech Lion Awards - Unique Contribution to Czech Film (), Best Design(Faust, , Little Otik, , Surviving Life, ), Best Stage Design(Insects), ), Grand Prix and International Critics Award, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Golden Bear, Berlinale (Dimensions of Dialogue, ), Prix special for lifelong achievement, International Animated Film Association (), FITES Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Development of Audiovisual Culture (), Freedom Award for Lifetime Achievement (Andrzej Wajda Award), Berlinale ()