Jaromil Jireš

Born: 1935-12-10 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]

Died: 2001-10-24

Known For: Directing

Biography

Jaromil Jireš (December 10, 1935 – October 24, 2001) was a director associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. His 1963 film The Cry was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It is often described as the first film of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a movement known for its dark humor, use of non-professional actors, and "art-cinema realism".

Filmography

2018

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel as Self

2009

Golden Sixties as Self (archive footage)

1999

Double Role ... (Director)

1995

GENUS ... (Writer)
Učitel tance ... (Director)

1993

Zvláštní schopnosti as Muž s rakví
Helimadoe ... (Director)

1991

Labyrinth ... (Director)

1985

Extended Time ... (Director)
Věčný Faust ... (Screenplay)

1984

Katapult ... (Director)

1983

Incomplete Eclipse ... (Director)
O labuti ... (Director)

1982

Opera ve vinici ... (Screenplay)

1980

Payment in Kind ... (Director)
Escape Home ... (Director)

1979

The Young Man and Moby Dick ... (Screenplay)
Zápisník zmizelého ... (Director)

1977

Flying Saucers Over Our Village ... (Director)
The Island of the Silver Herons ... (Director)

1974

Královský gambit ... (Screenplay)
People from the Subway ... (Screenplay)
Il Divino Boemo ... (Story)

1973

Kasař ... (Story)

1972

And Give My Love to the Swallows ... (Director)

1970

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ... (Screenplay)

1969

The Joke ... (Screenplay)

1968

Don Juan 68 ... (Screenplay)

1966

An Occasion to Speak as Self
Pearls of the Deep ... (Screenplay)
Srub ... (Director)

1964

The Cry ... (Screenplay)
The Hall of Lost Steps ... (Director)

1963

The Dynamite Watcher ... (Director)

1961

Footprints ... (Director)

1959

Uncle ... (Writer)

1958

A Box of Film as Self