Karel Kachyňa was born in 1924 in Vyškov. Karel Kachyňa was born 1. may 1924 in Moravia. He graduated from the FAMU in Prague in 1951, where he ranked among the first listeners. Documentary films started filming already during their stud... (Full Biography Below)
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Karel Kachyňa was born in 1924 in Vyškov. Karel Kachyňa was born 1. may 1924 in Moravia. He graduated from the FAMU in Prague in 1951, where he ranked among the first listeners. Documentary films started filming already during their studies, often as cameraman. Started in pairs with your classmate With a Clear (1950 NOTHING IS CLOUDY, 1952, an EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER, 1953, THE PEOPLE of ONE HEART). Later together made their debut in the field of feature film (1955 TONIGHT is ALL OVER), where, however, entered into the service of the regime's propaganda. Followed by the termination of cooperation Kachyňi with the Clear and everyone is heading your way. While Clear, the following work is exempted from the pro-regime ideology, Kachyňa continue to persist. 1959 filming a movie KING of the bohemian forest, capturing the heroic border guards and their fight with intruders to the border. The Film is, though vypravěčsky perfect, its communication inconsistent. Military and war theme holds even more Kachyňových works (1955 LOST TRACK, 1958 was THE CHRISTMAS, 1960 LAUNDERER). A strong artistic rise of Karl Kachyňi was recorded of his meeting with screenwriter John Walk. Together accounted for the whole of the sixties. From their cooperation was created images such as: MISERY (1962), which was awarded the Grand prix of the international jury at the Cannes film festival in the field of entertainment movies, prize of the jury at the International film festival in Mar del Plata and a Silver gondola and the silver Minervou at the International festival of films for youth in Venice, the HIGH WALL (1954) the award-winning the Silver tarp at the International film festival in Locarno and long LIVE the REPUBLIC (1965) also award-winning at Mar del Plata in the category "Best film". Among the most important are the social traumas recorded in the second half of the sixties: CARRIAGE TO VIENNA (1966), NIGHT of the BRIDE (1967), FUNNY LORD (1969), which Kachyňa be classified alongside the young directors of the new wave. In co-production with West Germany arises a picture AGAIN I'm JUMPING OVER PUDDLES (1970), relating the story of a boy affected paralysis, which will stand up to your handicap head-on. The artistic component of the film is taken care of famous designer Ester Krumbachová (known e.g. from the collaboration with Vera Chytilova on the film Fruit of the trees of paradise we eat). The Film obtained at a film festival in San Sebastian "the Golden conch". Passionate testimony incurred in the cooperation Kachyňi with the Walk are finished with the drama of the EAR (1970). A claustrophobic image in which is depicted the fear, with which during the reign of a totalitarian regime battling even the biggest power holders, however, at the time of normalization of any forthcoming distribution. About 30 years later the film received a nomination for the Golden palm in Cannes. It also ends Kachyňova cooperation with a Walk. In the 70's. ies there is less silence, until the turn of the 70. – 80. years film, LOVE BETWEEN the RAINDROPS (1979), with the bravado acting performance don cheadle in the role of gradually failing of the žižkov entrepreneur, builds on his previous work. The following are movies with medical theme: WATCH ROUNDS (1981) and NURSES (1983), where in the main role stood out Kachyňova future wife Alena Mihulová, or tragicomedy HOBBYISTS, O FANDY (1982). At the same time, also from the late 70's.ies is working for television, arises, for example, a television interpretation of the stories of Ota Pavel GOLDEN EELS (1979). From the same author later reported the film form and the short story the DEATH of the BEAUTIFUL DEER (1986), the television production also include: COUNTING SHEEP (1981), RAINBOW MARBLE (1986) or one of the most remarkable Czech series TRAIN CHILDHOOD AND HOPE (1985). The last film achievements of Charles Kachyňi are also connected with tv screen LEATHER SUN (2002), FATHER UNKNOWN (2001). Some of his initially television projects ended up on movie screens – the CITY GOES MIKLUÁŠ (1992), COW (1994), which the editor of the New York Post Larry Worth describe, as if Ingmar Bergman made Forrest Gump, FANNY (1995), HANELE (1999). Not long before his death, finishing his last tv movie that tells the story of two of the passengers steamroller the ROAD WAS DRY in PLACES, WET (2003). Sought more about the rights to make a movie according to the books of Bohumil Hrabal I Served the king of england, about the same time he ran Jiří Menzel, whose film in 2006 he recorded.
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