Ivan Passer

Ivan Passer

male, 76 years old
expatriate, film director, soviet, czech, CzechNewWave, From Prague
Ivan Passer Czech-born film director & screenwriter. One of the key figures in the Czech New Wave in the early sixties, Passer worked closely with...

Jan Němec

73 years old
Sousta, Peter Hames, Démanty noci, A Loaf of Bread, ussr, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague…CzechNewWave, czech
Jan Němec is a Czech filmmaker whose most important works dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant t...

Věra Chytilová

female, 80 years old
film director, czech, Filmmaker, czechoslovakian, avant-garde, CzechNewWave…Czech cinema
Věra Chytilová is an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. She is considered one of the greatest female Czech filmmakers. Ba...

Jaroslava Schallerová

female, 53 years old
film actor, hungarian, film star, czech, actor, Valerie a týden divů…CzechNewWave
Jaroslava Schallerová (sometimes credited as Jarka Shallerová) was a popular Czech and Hungarian film star during the 70's. Her film debut was at th...