Jiří Menzel (1938 – 2020) was a Czech director, actor and screenwriter.
He is best-known for the film Closely Watched Trains (1966).
Tag Archives: Czech cinema
RIP Ivan Passer (1933 – 2020)
Ivan Passer was a Czech film director best known for his film Cutter’s Way (1981).
RIP Vlasta Chramostová (1926 – 2019)
Vlasta Chramostová was a Czech actress perhaps best-known for her part in The Cremator (1969), one of several Central European films that dealt with the Holocaust.
The Cremator is featured in Film as a Subversive Art (1974).
In this film, Vasta plays Lakmé, the wife of the delusional cremator who prepares for the endlösung.
Below is the OST by Zdeněk Liška.