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Jindřich Polák

Died in 2003

Jindřich Polák was born on 5 May 1925 in Prague. He did amateur theatre at secondary school, left law after one semester for newsreel projection and then editing, and in 1946 joined the Barrandov studios, where he was an assistant, notably to Otakar Vávra, then assistant director, before moving to directing in 1958. He worked in adventure films, crime films, science fiction and above all, with the screenwriter Ota Hofman, children's series, and died in Prague on 22 August 2003.

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