Jan Schmidt

Jan Schmidt was born on 3 January 1934 and grew up in Náchod, in the family of a well-known doctor; there he was a schoolmate of Miloš Forman. Barred from medical studies for political reasons, he worked as a labourer and then as a remedial teacher, entered the Prague film school in 1957, in Otakar Vávra's class, and there began a long collaboration with the screenwriter Pavel Juráček. He made sixteen films from 1960 to 1995 and died in Prague on 27 September 2019.

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• CinemaLate August at the Hotel OzoneKonec srpna v hotelu OzonJan Schmidt · 1967Cinema