Vojtěch Jasný
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, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968. Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and continues to teach at The School of Visual Arts (SVA) and The New York Film Academy (NYFA). Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat is an allegorical fable about a magical cat that comes to a small Czech town and causes the underlying nature of the townspeople to be revealed. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Also among Jasný's works is Všichni dobří rodáci /All My Good Countrymen (1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968.
It’s Not Always Cloudy
(Screenplay)
It’s Not Always Cloudy
(Director of Photography)
Za život radostný
(Director)
Za život radostný
(Idea)
Za život radostný
(Screenplay)
Impressions of Herbert Von Karajan
(Director)
When the Cat Comes
(Screenplay)
Lidé jednoho srdce
(Screenplay)
Lidé jednoho srdce
(Director)
Lidé jednoho srdce
(Camera Operator)
All My Good Countrymen
(Screenplay)
All My Good Countrymen
(Director)
Stará čínská opera
(Director)
Stará čínská opera
(Camera Operator)
When the Cat Comes
(Director)
The Peanut Butter Solution
(Writer)
Opportunity
(Screenplay)
Opportunity
(Director)
Věděli si rady
(Director)
Věděli si rady
(Idea)
Věděli si rady
(Screenplay)
Věděli si rady
(Director of Photography)
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
(Writer)
Why Havel?
(Screenplay)
Return to Paradise Lost
(Director)
Return to Paradise Lost
(Screenplay)
Return to Paradise Lost
(Story)
Jarní vody
(Story)
The Clown
(Director)
The Clown
(Screenplay)
The Pipes
(Director)
Desire
(Director)
All My Good Countrymen
(Story)
Neobyčejná léta
(Idea)
Neobyčejná léta
(Screenplay)
Neobyčejná léta
(Director)
Neobyčejná léta
(Director of Photography)
I Survived Certain Death
(Director)
Desire
(Story)
When the Cat Comes
(Screenstory)
The Cultist
(Director)
Z čínského zápisníku
(Director)
Z čínského zápisníku
(Camera Operator)
September Nights
(Director)
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit
(Director)
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
(Director)
Dogs and People
(Story)
Why Havel?
(Director)
Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn
(Director)
Czech Rhapsody
(Director)
Der Leuchtturm
(Director)
Der Leuchtturm
(Adaptation)
We
(Director)
The Great Land of Small
(Director)
Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil
(Director)
Attempted Flight
(Director)
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
(Director)
Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
(Director)
Everything Ends Tonight
(Director)
The Pipes
(Screenplay)
Hell on Earth
(Director)
Magnetické vlny léčí
(Director)
Desire
(Screenplay)
September Nights
(Screenplay)
The Woman from Sarajevo
(Director)
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
(Director)
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
(Writer)
Am Strand
(Director)
Hell on Earth
(Screenplay)
Dogs and People
(Screenplay)
Czech Rhapsody
(Story)
Czech Rhapsody
(Screenplay)
It’s Not Always Cloudy
(Director)
It’s Not Always Cloudy
(Editor)
Váhavý střelec
(Story)
Attempted Flight
(Writer)
The Cultist
(Writer)
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
(Director)
Broken Silence
(Director)
Der blinde Richter
(Director)