Jiří Slavíček (31 July 1901 – 18 August 1957) was a Czech film editor, screenwriter and director. He is son of painter

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and brother of

Jan Slavíček Jan Slavíček (22 January 1900 – 5 April 1970) was a Czech painter, son of painter Antonín Slavíček (1870–1910), brother of director and editor Jiří Slavíček and the successor of the Slavíček family.

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Career

Slavíček studied to be a mechanical engineer at the

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. Instead he followed his desire to become a filmmaker. In 1929, he went on a trip to

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in the United States. He studied film technology and later became an editor. In 1930, Slavíček returned to Czechoslovakia and worked at the

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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) * ''

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'' (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) * ''

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'' (1944) * '' The Portrait'' (1947) * '' Number Seventy-Two'' (1948) * ''

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'' (1949) * ''

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'' (1951) * '' The End of Ghosts'' (1952)

Editor

* '' On the Sunny Side'' (1933) * '' The Good Tramp Bernášek'' (1933) * '' Army Life – Cheerful Life'' (1934) * '' Grandhotel Nevada'' (1934) * '' Marijka the Unfaithful'' (1934) * '' Student's Mother'' (1935) * ''

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'' (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

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Slavíček, Jiří 1901 births 1957 deaths Film directors from Prague