🎬 František Vláčil

About

František Vláčil was a Czech film director, one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century Czech cinema. He is best known for his visually poetic historical films Marketa Lazarová and Údolí včel (The Valley of the Bees). After the onset of normalization he was barred from working at Barrandov studios and made several medium-length films, including Pověst o stříbrné jedli, scripted by Vladimír Körner.

Born:

19 February 1924 (74 years)

Died:

27 January 1999

Place of birth:

Cesky Tesin, Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic