Jiří Svoboda (born 5 May 1945 in
Kladno
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) is a
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film and TV director, screenwriter and retired
politician
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. He was leader of the
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
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(KSČM) from 1990 to 1993. In 2017 he received the World Prize for Humanism from the Macedonian-based Ohrid Academy of Humanism.
Career
In 1996 Svoboda unsuccessfully ran for the Senate as an independent candidate for the
Party of the Democratic Left. From 1999 to 2004 he was a professor of film art at
Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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(FAMU). As a journalist he also occasionally participates in historical debates about Czech history up until the Middle Ages. He holds atheist viewpoints.
Filmography
Director
* 1974 – ''Motiv pro vraždu''
* 1975 – ''
Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu''
* 1977 – ''The Blue Planet'' (''Modrá planeta'')
* 1980 – ''Dívka s mušlí''
* 1981 – ''Řetěz''
* 1982 – ''Schůzka se stíny''
* 1983 – ''Oblouk světla'' – TV film
* 1983 – ''
Zánik samoty Berhof''
* 1985 – ''
Scalpel, Please
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'' (''Skalpel, prosím'')
* 1986 – ''
Papilio
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It includes the common yellow swallowtail ('' Papilio machaon'') ...
''
* 1987 – ''Svět nic neví''
* 1988 – ''
Prokletí domu Hajnů''
* 1990 – ''Jen o rodinných záležitostech''
* 1995 – ''Co Hedvika neřekla'' – TV film
* 2002 – ''Udělení milosti se zamítá'' – TV film
* 2005 – ''
Sametoví vrazi''
* 2005 – ''Rána z milosti'' – TV film
* 2005 – ''Jasnovidec'' – TV film
* 2007 – ''Boží duha'' – TV film
* 2010 – ''
Domina'' TV film
* 2014 – ''
Poslední cyklista''
* 2015 – ''
Jan Hus
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''
* 2017 – ''Zádušní oběť'' TV film
References
1945 births
Czech politicians
Czech atheists
Living people
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia politicians
Czech film directors
Czechoslovak film directors
People from Kladno
Leaders of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Academic staff of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Politicians from Kladno
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