Jaromil Jireš
- Directing
- December 10, 1935 · Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]
- October 24, 2001
Biography
Jaromil Jireš (December 10, 1935 – October 24, 2001) was a director associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. His 1963 film The Cry was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It is often described as the first film of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a movement known for its dark humor, use of non-professional actors, and "art-cinema realism".
Known for
Filmography
- CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel · Self
- Golden Sixties · Self
- Double Role · Director, Screenplay
- Učitel tance · Director
- GENUS · Director, Writer
- Zvláštní schopnosti · Muž s rakví
- Helimadoe · Director, Co-Writer
- Labyrinth · Director
- Jestřábí moudrost · Screenplay
- Antonín Dvořák · Director, Writer
- Rakovina vůle · Director, Screenplay
- Naděje má hluboké dno · Director
- O Háderunovi a víle Elóře · Director, Co-Writer
- Lion with a White Mane · Director, Screenplay
- Věčný Faust · Screenplay, Director
- Extended Time · Director, Screenplay
- Katapult · Director, Screenplay
- O labuti · Director, Writer
- Incomplete Eclipse · Director, Screenplay
- Opera ve vinici · Director, Screenplay
- Escape Home · Director, Screenplay
- Payment in Kind · Director
- The Young Man and Moby Dick · Screenplay, Director
- Zápisník zmizelého · Director, Screenplay
- Flying Saucers Over Our Village · Director, Screenplay
- The Island of the Silver Herons · Director
- People from the Subway · Screenplay, Director
- Královský gambit · Screenplay, Director
- Il Divino Boemo · Story, Screenplay
- Kasař · Story, Screenplay
- And Give My Love to the Swallows · Director, Story
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders · Director, Screenplay
- The Joke · Director, Screenplay
- Don Juan 68 · Director, Story
- An Occasion to Speak · Self
- Pearls of the Deep · Director, Screenplay
- Srub · Director, Story
- The Cry · Screenplay, Director
- The Hall of Lost Steps · Director, Screenplay
- The Dynamite Watcher · Director
- Footprints · Director
- Uncle · Director, Writer
- A Box of Film · Self, Assistant Camera
- Hra na krále · Director