Marie Poledňáková (, 7 September 1941 – 8 November 2022) was a Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and media entrepreneur. She graduated from the

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ( cs, Akademie múzických umění v Praze, AMU) is a university in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic, specialising in the study of music, dance, drama, film, television and multi-media. It is the larg ...

in 1970.

Biography

Poledňáková was born in

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, the daughter of a university professor, and was raised in

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. After graduating from high school, she wanted to study chemistry, but this was not allowed: some members of her family had emigrated from the then-

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...

country and this was considered a serious offense which affected the rest of the family. Thus, instead of going to college, she went to work in a cookware factory. Poledňáková married Ivan Poledňák, a musicologist, and they had one son, Petr Poledňák. The pair divorced when Petr was eight. In 1961,

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

Jaroslav Dietl offered Poledňáková the position of assistant director at Czechoslovak Television. She worked in that capacity for 10 years while also taking evening classes at the

. She went on to work as a screenwriter and director at the studio after graduating from the academy. In 1982, she took a position with

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'', '' ...

, where she worked for six years as director. In 1990, Poledňáková co-founded the joint-stock company FTV Premiera (now Prima televize), which received the first license for private television broadcasting in the Czech Republic. After she sold her share in 1994, she became involved in the Premiéra Studio publishing house. In 2016, Poledňáková suffered a non-fatal stroke. She died on 8 November 2022, at the age of 81.

Filmography

* ''Hliněný vozíček'' (1973) * ''Otevřený kruh'' (1973) * ''Královské usínání'' (1974) * ''

Jak vytrhnout velrybě stoličku Jak may refer to: Places * Ják, a village in Hungary People * Jak Alnwick (born 1993), English football goalkeeper * Jak Jones (born 1993), Welsh professional snooker player * Raymond Jackson ("JAK") (1927–1997), UK cartoonist * Jak Airpor ...

'' (1977) * '' Jak dostat tatínka do polepšovny'' (1978) * ''Kotva u přívozu'' (1980) * ''

I Enjoy the World With You ''I Enjoy the World with You'' ( cs, S tebou mě baví svět) is a 1982 Czechoslovak family comedy directed by Marie Poledňáková. The movie was elected as the best Czech comedy ever made. Plot Every year, three middle-aged friends, sound eng ...

'' (1982) * '' Zkrocení zlého muže'' (1987) * ''Dva lidi v ZOO'' (1990) * ''Jak se krotí krokodýli'' (2006) * '' You Kiss Like a God'' (2009) * '' Líbáš jako ďábel'' (2012)

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