Jiří Menzel
Czech film director, actor, director, scriptwriter, writer and university educator (1938-2020)
1.68body-of-work score · ranked #582 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- February 23, 1938 · Prague
- Died
- September 5, 2020 · Prague
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
- Work
- actor, film director, pedagogue, writer
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.
- 1Larks on a StringSkřivánci na niti
1990 · Czechoslovakia · comedy
Berlin Golden Bear winner 1990 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1991 #11
1.142 citations - 2Closely Watched TrainsOstře sledované vlaky
1966 · Czechoslovakia · drama, comedy
TIME All-TIME 100 · Criterion Collection spine #131 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.543 citations
Complete filmography
All 19 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1966Closely Watched Trains
- 1966Crime at the Girls School
- 1966Pearls of the Deep
- 1968Capricious Summer
- 1968Crime in a Music Hall
- 1974Who Looks for Gold?
- 1976Seclusion Near a Forest
- 1979Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
- 1980Cutting It Short
- 1984The Snowdrop Festival
- 1985My Sweet Little Village
- 1986Chocolate Cop
- 1989The End of Old Times
- 1990Larks on a String
- 1991The Beggar's Opera
- 1994Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
- 2002Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
- 2006I Served the King of England
- 2013The Don Juans