Jan Hrebejk
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film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
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Early life and education
Born in Prague, Hřebejk studied together with his classmate Petr Jarchovský at high school. Now Jarchovsky is a frequent collaborator as a screenwriter. From 1987 to 1991, Hřebejk studied screenplay and dramaturgy at FAMU, an arts college in Prague for film and television.During his FAMU studies, Hřebejk directed and produced two short films, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Experience (1988) and 1948 AD (1989), to a script written by his classmate Petr Zelenka
Petr Zelenka
Petr Zelenka is an award-winning Czech playwright and director of theatre and film. His films have been recognized at international festivals in Moscow and Rotterdam...
. His professional directorial debut was a short film for Czech TV, You Do Nothing Because You've Got No Good Reason (1991). His films caught the attention of viewers and critics, and entered student film festivals.
Together with Petr Jarchovský, during his FAMU studies, he wrote a comedy screenplay, inspired by his background at a pioneer summer camp, Let's Sing the Song Naked-on. This screenplay was filmed in 1990 as a full-length feature by director Ondřej Trojan
Ondrej Trojan
Ondřej Trojan is a Czech film producer, actor and film director. Two of the films he produced were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film : Divided We Fall and Želary , which he also directed...
and cameraman Asen Šopov.
His 2009 film Kawasaki's Rose
Kawasaki's Rose
Kawasaki's Rose is a 2009 Czech drama film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film was selected in the Czech Republic as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist...
was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
at the 83rd Academy Awards
83rd Academy Awards
The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2010 and took place February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, Academy Awards ...
, but it didn't make the final shortlist.
Director
Cinema:- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Experience ("Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít", 1988") - student movie
- 1948 AD ("L.P. 1948", 1989) - short movie
- You Do Nothing Because You've Got No Good Reason ("Nedělejte nic, pokud k tomu nemáte vážný důvod", 1991) - short movie
- Big BeatŠakalí létaBig Beat is Czech musical comedy of Jan Hřebejk from 1993. It take place at 1959 in Prague's Hotel International.- Plot :To peacefully small-town live entry "man from nowhere", young hooligan Bejby , he with his eccentric clothes, guittar and craze for rock 'n' roll disturb slack water of not only...
("Šakalí léta", 1993) - Czech Soda ("Česká soda", 1998)
- Cosy Dens ("Pelíšky", 1999)
- Divided We FallDivided We Fall (film)Divided We Fall is a 2000 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Plot:...
("Musíme si pomáhat", 2000) - PupendoPupendoPupendo is a 2003 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk- Plot :Pupendo shows the difficulty of life in Czechoslovakia during the 1980s. Artist Bedřich Mára is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children...
(2003) - Up and DownUp and Down (film)Up and Down is a 2004 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film first premiered in France at the Cannes Film Market on May 19, 2004....
("Horem pádem", 2004) - Beauty in TroubleBeauty in TroubleBeauty in Trouble is a 2006 Czech tragicomedy directed by Jan Hřebejk. Eddie Cockrell, writing in Variety, said the "[t]itle comes from the Robert Graves poem, itself adapted into a Czech popular song in the 1980s, and performed in the film by homegrown thrush Radůza...
("Kráska v nesnázích", 2006) - Teddy Bear (2007 film) ("Medvídek") 2007
- I'm All Good ("U mě dobrý", 2008)
- Nasty ("Nestyda", 2008)
- Kawasaki's RoseKawasaki's RoseKawasaki's Rose is a 2009 Czech drama film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film was selected in the Czech Republic as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist...
("Kawasakiho růže", 2009) - Innocence ("Nevinnost", 2011)
Television:
- Charity Benefit ("Dobročinný večírek", 1992)
- Czech Soda ("Česká soda", 1993-97) - show, TV-series
- GEN: The Gallery of the Nation's Elite ("GEN: Galerie elity národa", 1993-94) - documentary
- Vladimír JiránekVladimír JiránekVladimír Jiránek is a Czech illustrator, film director and cartoonist.In 1962 he graduated from Philosophical faculty of Charles University in Prague, where he studied journalism. He closely cooperated with magazines . After the Velvet revolution he joined Lidové noviny...
by Jan Hřebejk ("Vladimír Jiránek pohledem Jana Hřebejka)
- Vladimír Jiránek
- GENUS ("GENUS", 1995-96) - documentary
- Michal VieweghMichal VieweghMichal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.His...
by Jan Hřebejk - Vladimír Mišík by Jan Hřebejk
- Dominik HašekDominik HašekDominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...
by Jan Hřebejk
- Michal Viewegh
- 60 ("60", 1996) - documentary
- How's the Living ("Jak se žije", 1997) - short documentary, TV-series
- Where Stars Fall ("Kde padají hvězdy", 1996) - TV series
- The Last Concert ("Poslední koncert", 1997)
- The Window ("Okno, 1997) - short
- The Good News ("Dobrá zpráva", 1997)
Theater:
- Tomorrow There Will Be... ("Zítra se bude..., 2010) - opera
Actor
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Experience ("Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít", 1988") - student movie
- Whisper ("Šeptej", 1996) as Woody
- Year of the DevilYear of The DevilYear of the Devil is a 2002 Czech film directed by Petr Zelenka. It stars musicians who act as themselves: Czech folk music band Čechomor, musicians and poets Jaromír Nohavica, Karel Plihal and British musician and composer Jaz Coleman...
("Rok ďábla", 1996) - Amazing Rock'n'roll in the Czech Republic, or Go Jack, go ("Úžasný rokenrol v Čechách aneb Jeď, Honzo, jeď", 2002) as Himself
- The Operation Hockey ("Operace Hokejdo", 2004) as Himself
- The Greatest of the Czechs ("Největší z Čechů", 2010) as předseda grantové komise
- The Freaky Years of the Czech Film ("Rozmarná léta českého filmu", 2011) - documentary, as Himself
Other contributions
- Let's Sing the Song Naked-on ("Pějme píseň dohola", 1990) - writer and narrator