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5 unusual facts about Jiří Menzel


Bohumil Hrabal

Closely Observed Trains: A Film by Jiří Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal, London: Lorrimer Publishing Ltd, 1971

Goran Trenchovski

He is the author of director's notes From Beggar to King (1995), editor of the dramatic anthology Carnival Sighs (1998), the monograph Steps on the Star Planks (1999), Beckett 100 (2006) and translator of Jiří Menzel's texts Faith and Doubt (2000).

Postřižinské

Its name comes from Bohumil Hrabal's book Postřižiny (translated into English as Cutting It Short), later (1980) made into a well-known film by Jiří Menzel.

Pyynikin kesäteatteri

The biggest box office successes of the 1980s in Pyynikki were A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, directed by Jiří Menzel, and Kätkäläinen by Simo Hämäläinen, directed by Markku Onttonen.

Sluštice

In the school building a part of the comedy The Festivals of Snowdrops (in Czech Slavnosti sněženek, 1983, director Jiří Menzel) was filmed.


Upír z Feratu

Doctor Marek (Jiří Menzel) is shocked when his beloved nurse, Mima (Dagmar Veškrnová), signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat to work as a rally-driver.


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