Branky
Branky is a municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. Branky lies approximately north-west of Vsetín, north-east of Zlín, and east of Prague. Notable people *Jiří Křižan (1941–2010), screenwriter, writer and politician References

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Jiří Křižan
Jiří Křižan (26 October 1941 – 13 October 2010) was a Czechs, Czech screenwriter, writer and politician. Life Křižan grew up in Moravian Wallachia. His father – a lumber mill company owner before 1948 nationalization – was arrested and executed by the Communists in a show trial in 1951. Křižan was expelled from high school for mocking the death of Czechoslovak Communist president Antonín Zápotocký. He had to work as a manual labourer until he was hired as a technical writer in a daily newspaper. His first produced screenplay was ''Horký vzduch'' in 1965. He was allowed to study at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, FAMU from 1965 to 1970. In 1971 he wrote an autobiographical novel ''Exercicia'' which he later adapted into the screenplay for the movie ''Tichá bolest''. In 1981 Křižan refused the Klement Gottwald National Prize for his screenplay to the movie ''Signum Laudis''. Politics Křižan was active in Charter 77 since 1986. ...
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