František Vláčil was a Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.

Between 1945 and 1950, he studied esthetics and art history at Masaryk University

Masaryk University

Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the third Czech university , it now consists of nine faculties and 42,182 students...

 in Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

. Later he worked in various groups and ateliers (e.g. on animated films), but his main area became played film. His films are well-known for extraordinarily high art quality. Vláčil was awarded many film prizes like the Prize of the International Film Festival 1998 in Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary is a spa city situated in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá, approximately west of Prague . It is named after King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who founded the city in 1370...

 or the Czech Lion Prize for his longstanding contribution to world film culture.

Selected filmography

• Holubice (The White Dove), 1960
• Ďáblova past (Devil's Trap), 1962
• Marketa Lazarová
  Marketa Lazarová
  Marketa Lazarová is a 1967 Czechoslovak historical film directed by František Vláčil. It is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Vladislav Vančura...
  
  , 1967, by novel of Vladislav Vančura
  Vladislav Vancura
  Vladislav Vančura was one of the most important Bohemian writers of the 20th century...
  
  
• Údolí včel
  Údolí včel (film)
  The Valley of the Bees is a 1967 Czechoslovak historical drama film directed by František Vláčil. The boy Ondrej grows to manhood in a harsh religious order, where, with a hint of homoerotic tension, a Teutonic knight and veteran of the crusades becomes his mentor...
  
  (Valley of the Bees), 1967
• Adelheid
  Adelheid (film)
  Adelheid is a 1969 Czechoslovak drama film directed by František Vláčil, and based on a novel by Vladimír Körner. Set in the Sudetenland shortly after World War II, a former Czechoslovak soldier returning from the Western front, becomes the caretaker of a manor occupied by a German family who...
  
  , 1969
• Stín kapradiny (Shade of a Fern), 1985, by novel of Josef Čapek
  Josef Capek
  Josef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.- Biography :...
  
  

External links

• IMDb record
• Kinoblog - extensive coverage of Vláčil's career
• Sight & Sound - overview of Vláčil's career