Vojtěch Jasný

Vojtěch Jasný was born on 30 November 1925 in Kelč, into a family of schoolteachers; his father, arrested after being denounced, died at Auschwitz. He took part in the resistance, studied philosophy and Russian, then cinematography at the film school in Prague, where he worked from his student years with Karel Kachyňa, before the Army Film unit. After leaving in 1970, he worked in Austria, Germany and then New York, where he taught directing, and died in Přerov on 15 November 2019.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaAll My Good CountrymenVšichni dobří rodáciVojtěch Jasný · 1969Cinema