Jan Švankmajer
Czech director, animator and artist (born 1934)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- September 4, 1934 · Prague
- Nationality
- Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
- Work
- film director, sculptor, animator, photographer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1Conspirators of PleasureSpiklenci slasti
1996 · United Kingdom / Czech Republic / Switzerland · comedy, action, animation
Hoberman's annual top 10 1997 #1 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1999 #null
0.642 citations - 2FaustLekce Faust
1994 · United Kingdom / France / Germany · fantasy, drama, mystery
Hoberman's annual top 10 1994 #3
0.251 citation - 3Little OtikOtesánek
2000 · Czech Republic / United Kingdom / Japan · horror, comedy, drama
Hoberman's annual top 10 2001 #10
0.141 citation - 40.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 30 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1964The Last Trick
- 1965A Game with Stones
- 1965Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor
- 1966Et Cetera
- 1967Historia Naturae (Suita)
- 1967L'Homme et la Technique
- 1968Picnic with Weissmann
- 1968The Flat
- 1968The Garden
- 1969A Quiet Week in the House
- 1969Don Juan
- 1970The Ossuary
- 1971Jabberwocky
- 1972Leonardo's Diary
- 1977Castle of Otranto
- 1983Dimensions of Dialogue
- 1983Down to the Cellar
- 1983The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope
- 1988Virile Games
- 1989Darkness/Light/Darkness
- 1989Meat Love
- 1990The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia
- 1993Food
- 1994Faust
- 1996Conspirators of Pleasure
- 2000Little Otik
- 2005Lunacy
- 2010Surviving Life
- 2018Insects
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