Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

77 mins | Documentary | Sept. 1, 2009

After being one of the most successful filmmakers in Europe in the sixties, Vojtech Jasny (Czech Republic, 1925) lives in a small apartment in New York. For Jasny, life and cinema are inseparable concepts. By visiting friends who still live in Life and Film Jasny first person will have their own history and some decisive events in his life: the Nazi invasion and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exile and his arrival in New York years later.

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

77 mins | Documentary | Sept. 1, 2009

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
After being one of the most successful filmmakers in Europe in the sixties, Vojtech Jasny (Czech Republic, 1925) lives in a small apartment in New York. For Jasny, life and cinema are inseparable concepts. By visiting friends who still live in Life and Film Jasny first person will have their own history and some decisive events in his life: the Nazi invasion and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exile and his arrival in New York years later.
Producers Sonora Estudios, Axman Production
Original title Life and Film (The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny)
Directors Arkaitz Basterra Zalbide
Writers Arkaitz Basterra Zalbide

Cast

Vojtěch Jasný

as Himself

Rock Demers

as Himself

Miloš Forman

as Himself

René Böll

as Himself

Josef Slimácek

as Himself

Robert Lantz

as Himself