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Encyclopedia > Jiri Menzel

Jiří Menzel (born February 23rd, 1938), is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor and scriptwriter.


He became famous in 1967, when his first feature film Closely Watched Trains (based on the novel by Hrabal) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.


He was nominated again in the same category in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village.


His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm. Some of them are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vancura.


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CER | Czech Film: Menzel and Hrabal's Oscar-winning work (3910 words)
The story of Menzel's film Postřižiny (Cutting it Short, 1980) is based on one that Hrabal published in the seventies, and it goes back to the time of the writer's childhood (Hrabal was born in 1914) spent at the brewery in Nymburk, a small town close to Prague.
Menzel also does not show the motifs of cruelty in his film: for example, Maryška cutting the tail of the dog because of the new age in which everything seems to be getting shorter, from travel times to skirt lengths.
Menzel, however, blamed Sirotek for the fiasco, considering his behavior to be unethical, and for this reason he exacted his revenge in public.
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