Karel Steklý was born in 1903 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. Started in various travelling theatre companies. From 1928 to 1938 he worked as a stage manager and prop master in the Liberated theatre. The role of t... (Full Biography Below)
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Karel Steklý was born in 1903 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. Started in various travelling theatre companies. From 1928 to 1938 he worked as a stage manager and prop master in the Liberated theatre. The role of the stage manager then played in Voskovcově and Werichově the movie Powder and petrol. From 1933 he also began to write film scenarios, first for other directors (e.g. Václav Wasserman), later only for their own movies. The artistic quality of these scenarios, however, had a very ac level, between the its scenario, can be found both movies excellent, and completely below average. In the Liberated theatre was editing at the initiative of Jan Werich games for kids (e.g. the Island of dynamite, Divotvorný hat) and wrote himself a fairy tale, whose central figure was a Captain Bublas (e.g., Alibaba and thirty-nine thieves). Direct started after the second world war in 1945. My whole life has always been fully conformal with the ruling regime and spun even works politically significantly tendentious and ideologically very problematic. For this reason, it is today the whole of his artistic path considered to be a very unbalanced and socially contradictory. Beside the pictures of very high quality and attractive made of a large number of works of mediocre or downright substandard. As a disciplined member of the communist party was in its political attitude of the then ruling communist regime very often appreciated, rewarded and artistically exploited. In 1973 he received the title of national artist.
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