Vojtěch Jasný
Directing
Vojtěch Jasný (born 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia. An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968. Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) and The New York Film Academy (NYFA). Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat is an allegorical fable about a magical cat that comes to a small Czech town and causes the underlying nature of the townspeople to be revealed. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Also among Jasný's works is Všichni dobří rodáci /All My Good Countrymen (1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968.
Known for
Directing41
tvBroken Silence
2002
Director
movieReturn to Paradise Lost
1999
Director
movieGladys
1999
Director
movieWhy Havel?
1991
Director
movieThe Great Land of Small
1987
Director
movieWe
1982
Director
movieAm Strand
1982
Director
movieThe Woman from Sarajevo
1980
Director
movieThe Clown
1976
Director
movieAttempted Flight
1976
Director
movieDer Kulterer
1974
Director
movieDer Leuchtturm
1972
Director
movieCzech Rhapsody
1970
Director
movieAll My Good Countrymen
1969
Director
movieThe Pipes
1966
Director
movieMagnetické vlny léčí
1965
Director
movieWhen the Cat Comes
1963
Director
movieDesire
1958
Director
Opportunity
1956
Director
movieIt’s Not Always Cloudy
1950
Director
Writing27
Hell on Earth
2001
Screenplay
movieReturn to Paradise Lost
1999
Screenplay
movieGladys
1999
Writer
movieWhy Havel?
1991
Screenplay
movieThe Clown
1976
Screenplay
movieDer Kulterer
1974
Writer
movieDer Leuchtturm
1972
Adaptation
movieDogs and People
1971
Story, Screenplay
movieCzech Rhapsody
1970
Story, Screenplay
movieAll My Good Countrymen
1969
Screenplay, Story
movieJarní vody
1968
Story
movieThe Pipes
1966
Screenplay
movieWhen the Cat Comes
1963
Screenplay, Screenstory
movieDesire
1958
Story, Screenplay
Opportunity
1956
Screenplay
Neobyčejná léta
1952
Screenplay, Story
Za život radostný
1951
Screenplay, Story
movieIt’s Not Always Cloudy
1950
Screenplay
Věděli si rady
1949
Screenplay, Story
Camera6
Stará čínská opera
1954
Camera Operator
Z čínského zápisníku
1954
Camera Operator
Lidé jednoho srdce
1953
Camera Operator
Neobyčejná léta
1952
Director of Photography
movieIt’s Not Always Cloudy
1950
Director of Photography
Věděli si rady
1949
Director of Photography
Acting5
movieSearching for Ester
2005
Himself
movieIt’s Not Always Cloudy
1950
Man with a Gramophone (uncredited)
