Vojtěch Jasný
November 30, 1925 · 100 years old
Vojtěch Jasný (born 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia. An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s…
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7 titles
The Peanut Butter Solution
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back.
When the Cat Comes
People arrive in a small village with a strange cat wearing glasses. When someone takes them off, he can color people, according to their nature and mood. Adults consider him dangerous; children love him.
All My Good Countrymen
Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
The Great Land of Small
Two children enter a forest and meet Fritz a leprechaun-like creature, whose gold dust was stolen by a wicked hunter. As the hunter becomes mad, he attempts to capture Fritz and the children. who escaped to the Land of Small.
Touha
Four stories, four seasons of the year, four periods from the human life
Není stále zamraceno
A film about life in the Czech border area after the expulsion of the Germans.