Jiří Slavíček (31 July 1901 – 18 August 1957) was a Czech film editor, screenwriter and director. He is son of painter
Antonín Slavíček
Antonín Slavíček (16 May 1870 – 1 February 1910) was a Czech Impressionist painter who worked mostly in the area surrounding Kameničky.
Life
In 1887, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, where he studied landscape painting with Ju ...
and brother of
Jan Slavíček.
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farnost při kostele sv.Antonína v pražských Holešovicích[dle matriky narozených se Jiří Slavíček narodil v Holešovicích, ulice Dobrovského čp. 646]
Career
Slavíček studied to be a mechanical engineer at the
Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU, cs, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, ČVUT) is one of the largest university, universities in the Czech Republic with 8 faculties, and is one of the oldest institutes of technology in Centra ...
. Instead he followed his desire to become a filmmaker. In 1929, he went on a trip to
Hollywood
Hollywood usually refers to:
* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California
* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
Hollywood may also refer to:
Places United States
* Hollywood District (disambiguation)
* Hollywood, ...
in the United States. He studied film technology and later became an editor.
In 1930, Slavíček returned to Czechoslovakia and worked at the
Barrandov Studios
Barrandov Studios is a set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe.
Several major Hollywood productions have been made here, including ''Mission Impossible'', '' ...
as an editor. He later began directing screenplays he wrote.
After the war he was involved in organizing and teaching activities, he worked as the director of the nationalized Barrandov Studios as well as a teacher at the Secondary Film School in Čimelice.
Filmography
Director
* ''
Jarča's Professor'' (1937)
* ''
Army Twins'' (1937)
* ''
The Court of God'' (1938)
* ''
Upside Down'' (1938)
* ''
The Way of the Cross'' (1938)
* ''
The Star from the Back of Beyond'' (1939)
* ''
Zborov'' (1938)
* ''
The Paths of Life'' (1940)
* ''
The Old Man Bezoušek'' (1941)
* ''
The Boys on the River'' (1944)
* ''
The Portrait'' (1947)
* ''
Number Seventy-Two'' (1948)
* ''
Today at Half Past Ten'' (1949)
* ''
The Murderer's Gorge'' (1951)
* ''
The End of Ghosts'' (1952)
Editor
* ''
On the Sunny Side'' (1933)
* ''
The Good Tramp Bernášek'' (1933)
* ''
Army Life – Cheerful Life'' (1934)
* ''
Grandhotel Nevada
''Grand Hotel Nevada'' ( cs, Grandhotel Nevada) is a 1935 comedy film directed by Jan Sviták and starring Lída Baarová, Otomar Korbelář, and Karel Dostal.
It was made in Prague by the Czech subsidiary of the Germany company Universum Film A ...
'' (1934)
* ''
Marijka the Unfaithful'' (1934)
* ''
Student's Mother'' (1935)
* ''
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Milan Rastislav Štefánik (; 21 July 1880 – 4 May 1919) was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister of War for Czechoslovakia. A ...
'' (1935)
* ''
One in a Million'' (1935)
* ''
Three Men in the Snow'' 1936)
* ''
Heart at Dusk'' (1936)
* ''
The Golem'' (1936)
* ''
Eva's Divorce'' (1937)
* ''
Children to Order'' (1938)
References
External links
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1901 births
1957 deaths
Film directors from Prague