Pavel Juráček

Pavel Juráček

Born	(1935-08-02)2 August 1935 Příbram, Czechoslovakia
Died	20 May 1989(1989-05-20) (aged 53) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Czech
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter and director
Years active	1961–1970

Pavel Juráček (Czech: [ˈpavɛl ˈjuraːtʃɛk]; 2 August 1935 – 20 May 1989) was a Czech screenwriter and film director who studied at FAMU.^[1] Juráček started as a screenwriter for many Czech New Wave movies until he became a director. He worked in Prague at the Barrandov film studios; however after his satirical movie Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) was shelved, he was fired from Barrandov and wasn't allowed to make movies anymore.^[2]

Education

Juráček studied alongside filmmakers like Věra Chytilová, director of Sedmikrásky (Daisies), while studying at FAMU. He assisted in revising Chytilová's script in order to gain approval from their professor, although she inevitably filmed her original script in defiance.^[3]

Filmography

Director

Joseph Kilian (1963) – co-directed with Jan Schmidt; Grand Prize at ISFF Oberhausen, FIPRESCI Prize at IFF Mannheim
Every Young Man (1965)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

Screenwriter only

Black and White Sylva (1961) – directed by Jan Schmidt
Ceiling (1962) – directed by Věra Chytilová
Keeper of Dynamite (1963) – directed by Zdeněk Sirový
Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963) – directed by Jindřich Polák
A Jester's Tale (Bláznova kronika) (1964) – directed by Karel Zeman
Nobody Will Laugh (1966) – directed by Hynek Bočan
Daisies (1966) – directed by Věra Chytilová
Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967) – directed by Jan Schmidt
Kinoautomat (1967) – directed by Radúz Činčera

References

^ "Pavel Jurácek Season 2006". BBC. February 2006. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
^ "Pavel Juráček". Filmový přehled (in Czech).
^ Skupa, Lukáš (2018-09-02). "Perfectly unpredictable: early work of Věra Chytilová in the light of censorship and production reports". Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 9 (3): 233–249. doi:10.1080/2040350X.2018.1469202. ISSN 2040-350X. S2CID 194967405.