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Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema – The Guardian
The Czech director’s films reflected a difficult, grisly era but were infused with an irresistible wit and romance, most memorably in Closely Observed Trains
Jií Menzel was the powerhouse film-maker of the Czech new wave, a director, screenwriter and actor who along with Vra Chytilová, Ján Kadár and Milo Forman found a way of speaking to the Czech soul the European soul, too and mobilised cinema in the cause of humanity and freedom. Menzels movies, in their wit and subversive romance, were born of the grisly era that ran from Munich 38 to the Prague Spring; the Czechs knew tyranny from both sides: the violence and war delirium of the Nazis and then t…
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