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Oscar-winning Czech director Jiří Menzel has died at the age of eighty-two, his wife, Olga Menzelová, said on her Facebook page Sunday night. To know the prominent form of the Czech New Wave on Saturday he died at home.

Jiří Menzel has directed two dozen feature films and documentaries, as well as a number of theatrical performances in the Czech Republic and other countries, including Hungary. As an actor, he has appeared in around 80 film and television jobs. He won an Oscar in 1967 for his film Strictly Controlled Trains, directed by Bohumil Hrabal, but Hrabal’s novel also served as the basis for the 1980 brewery fad. His 1985 film My Little Village, starring János Bán Jászai, a Award-winning actor, he is one of the most popular Czech comedies of all time, winning another Oscar in 1986.

Good comedy has to be about serious things. If you start talking too seriously about serious things, you will soon be ridiculed, ”he once said.

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