Juraj Jakubisko

Juraj Jakubisko was born on 30 April 1938 in Kojšov, in eastern Slovakia. Trained in photography at the school of applied arts in Bratislava, he then studied at the film school in Prague and directed in 1967 his first feature film, Kristove roky. Under the normalisation, he could only make documentaries, before returning to fiction in 1979. Settled in Prague from 1993 with his wife, the actress and producer Deana Horváthová, he was named in 2000 the best Slovak director of the century and died in Prague on 24 February 2023.

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• CinemaBirds, Orphans and FoolsVtáčkovia, siroty a blázniJuraj Jakubisko · 1969Cinema