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Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel died at the age of eighty-three.
One of the most famous creators of the Czech New Wave also worked as a screenwriter, actor and theater director. In 1967, he received an Oscar for his film Strictly Controlled Trains based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal, writes hvg.hu.
Menzel’s death was posted on his Facebook post by his wife, Olga Menzelova, to which he also added a video showing Menzel and his family until the last phase of his illness.
According to the IMDb movie database, he directed 29 short or feature films, first making a scene in the feature film The Beads in the Deep, a 1965 film. His most famous film, A Strictly Controlled Trains, was made a year later. This was followed, for example, by capricious summer, sparrows on a string, the Capriccio brewery; the latter were also based on Hrabal’s novels, as was I on Her Majesty’s Majesty in 2007. His latest film, Don Juan, was released in 2013.
His friendship with many Hungarian artists is well known, they write on Wikipedia. She has starred in several Hungarian films (eg Szívzűr – Géza Böszörményi, Felhrthurjáték – Gyula Maár, Sundays of Franciska – Sándor Simó, The Door – István Szabó); she also directed a play in Hungary. At the Katona József Theater he performed the play by Carlo Gozzi Deer King. In 2004, the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary received the star.
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