František Vláčil

František Vláčil (February 19, 1924, Český Těšín – January 28, 1999, Prague) was a Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.

Between 1945 and 1950, he studied esthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno. 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 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, 1967, based on novel by Vladislav Vančura
• Údolí včel (Valley of the Bees), 1967
• Adelheid, 1969
• Dým bramborové natě (Fume of the Potato Haulm), 1976
• Stíny horkého léta (Shadows of the hot Summer), 1977
• Hadí jed (Snake's Venom), 1981
• Pasáček z doliny (Little Hersman from the Valley), 1983
• Stín kapradiny (Shade of a Fern), 1984, based on novel by Josef Čapek
• Albert, 1985, TV
• Mág (Magician), 1987

External links

• František Vláčil at the Internet Movie Database
• František Vláčil at Kinoblog (web archive)
• "Out of the past: Frantisek Vlácil" at Sight & Sound (web archive)