Svatopluk Innemann was a Czech

Czech people

Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

 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:...

, cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, film editor and actor. Innemann, brother of Miroslav Innemann and Liduška Innemannová, was one of the pioneers of Czech cinema.

Biography and works

Innemann, was a son of the Czech director Rudolf Innemann and opera singer Ludmila Lvová – Innemannová. He was born in Slovenia during their engagement, but was raised in Prague, where he studied to be a pork butcher. Around 1918 he became interested in film, and began to work as a camera operator. As cameraman, he co-created his first film with Otta Heller. From 1919 he worked independently.

Innemann's early career was varied; he was involved in operetta

Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...

s, comedies

Comedy

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 and melodrama

Melodrama

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s, short films and documentaries, often as cameraman. He made his directorial debut in silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

s with the fairy-tale Červená karkulka

Little Red Riding Hood (1920 film)

Little Red Riding Hood is a 1920 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Svatopluk Innemann.-Cast:*Ludmila Innemannová ... Grandmother*Zdena Kavková ... Karkulka Podhorská*Josef Zora ... Father*Arnostka Záhoríková ... Mother...

(Little Red Riding-hood) in 1920. In 1925 he directed the popular comedy Z českých mlýnů (From the Czech Mills) and made a biographical film about Josef Kajetán Tyl

Josef Kajetán Tyl

Josef Kajetán Tyl was a significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor. He was a notable figure of the Czech National Revival movement and is best known as the author of the current national anthem of the Czech Republic titled Kde domov můj.-Life:Josef Kajetán Tyl was the first-born son of Jiří...

, an important personality of the Czech National Revival

Czech National Revival

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. In 1927 he directed Milenky starého kriminálníka (The Lovers of an Old Criminal), starring the Czech actor Vlasta Burian

Vlasta Burian

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, known in Czechoslovakia as the "King of Comedians". He directed a total of 16 silent films: in 1931 he directed his first sound film

Sound film

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, Poslední bohém (The Last Bohemian), about the Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Hašek

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, and made the popular comedy Muži v offsidu (Men in Offside) with Hugo Haas

Hugo Haas

Hugo Haas was a Czech film actor, director and writer. He appeared in over 60 films between 1926 and 1962, as well as directing 20 films between 1933 and 1962....

 in the title role. It remains popular in the Czech Republic.

The 1932 film Před maturitou, made in cooperation with the Czech writer Vladislav Vančura

Vladislav Vancura

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, is considered Innemann's second creative peak. In 1933, he directed the crime film

Crime film

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 Vražda v Ostrovní ulici, the first film to be made in the Barrandov Studios

Barrandov Studios

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. His film career ended in 1937 with Švanda dudák, based on a theme by Josef Kajetán Tyl. Later, during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he intended to perform his own play with very controversial topic (he tried to portray German leader Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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), but from 1940 had to undergo treatments for a mental disorder. He was one of the very few Czech filmmakers who claimed German citizenship during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

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. During World War II

World War II

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, Innemann cooperated with the ambitious and unsuccessful Czech director and Nazi

Nazism

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 collaborator Václav Binovec. At the war's end, Innemann's wartime activities were investigated. He died on October 30, 1945 at his home in Klecany

Klecany

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, near Prague, with the investigation incomplete.

Filmography

• Neviňátka (1929) - director
• Malostranští mušketýři (1932) - director
• Červená karkulka
  Little Red Riding Hood (1920 film)
  Little Red Riding Hood is a 1920 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Svatopluk Innemann.-Cast:*Ludmila Innemannová ... Grandmother*Zdena Kavková ... Karkulka Podhorská*Josef Zora ... Father*Arnostka Záhoríková ... Mother...
  
  (1920) - director of photography, director
• Komptoiristka (1922) - director of photography, director
• Aloisův los (1918) - director of photography
• Muži v offsidu (1931) - director
• Za čest vítězů (1920) - director of photography
• Závěť podivínova (1923) - director of photography
• Byl první máj (1919) - actor
• Ve dvou se to lépe táhne (1928) - director
• Hudba srdci (1934) - director
• Švejk v ruském zajetí (1926) - actor, director
• Z bláta do louže (1934) - director
• Z českých mlýnů (1925) - director of photography, director
• Josef Kajetán Tyl (1925) - director
• Lešetínský kovář (1924) - director of photography
• Akord smrti (1919) - director of photography
• Milenky starého kriminálníka (1927) - director
• Bílý cíl (1937) - director
• Drž je! (1933) - director
• Zlatá žena (1920) - director of photography
• Jak Vašíček přišel k nohám (1921) - director of photography
• Zelený automobil (1921) - director of photography, director
• Venoušek a Stázička (1922) - director
• Die Sextanerin (1936) - director
• Československý Ježíšek (1918) - director of photography
• Třetí rota (1931) - director
• Vůně domova (1933) - director
• Dáma s malou nožkou (1919) - actor, director of photography (dir. Přemysl Pražský
  Přemysl Pražský
  Přemysl Pražský was an early Czech film director, film actor and screenwriter. He directed and appeared in a number of films in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s, directing comedy films such as Two Mothers , The Mysterious Beauty , Hraběnka z Podskalí and Prague Seamstresses in 1929...
  
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• Sňatková kancelář (1932) - director
• Švanda Dudák (1937) - director
• Plukovník Švec (1929) - director
• Lucerna (1925) - director of photography
• Prodaná nevěsta (1933) - director
• Skřivánčí píseň (1933) - director
• Okovy (1925) - director of photography
• Divoká Marina (1919) - director of photography
• Vzteklý ženich (1919) - director of photography
• Děvče ze stříbrné hranice (1921) - director of photography
• Boby nesmí kouřit (1919) - director of photography
• Buď připraven (1925) - director of photography, director
• Šílený lékař (1920) - director of photography
• Lásky Kačenky Strnadové (1926) - director
• Vražda v Ostrovní ulici (1933) - director
• Utrpením ke slávě (1919) - director of photography
• Před maturitou (1932) - director
• Karel Havlíček Borovský (1931) - director
• Fidlovačka (1930 - director
• Magdalena (1920) - director of photography
• Písničkář (1932) - director
• Poslední bohém (1931) - director
• Sněženky (1920) - director of photography
• Láska je utrpením (1919) - director of photography
• Šenkýřka "U divoké krásy" (1932) - director
• Tvoje srdce inkognito (1936) - director
• Sextánka (Die Sextanerin) (1936) - director
• Tchán Kondelík a zeť Vejvara (1929) - director
• U Svatého Antoníčka (1933) - director
• Tři kroky od těla (1934) - director
• Falešná kočička (1926) - actor, director
• Psohlavci (1931) - director
• Praha v záři světel (Prague at Night, 1927) - director

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