Vojtěch Jasný
Directing
November 30, 1925
Died November 15, 2019 (93 years old)
Kelc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
5
Acting Credits
40
Directed
Biography
Vojtěch Jasný (born 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat (1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia. An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968. Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including...
