
Acting
Born February 23, 1938 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.

The Don Juans
2013
Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions
2011

I Served the King of England
2007

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002

One Moment
2002

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
1994

The Beggar's Opera
1991

The End of Old Times
1990

Audience
1990

Die Schokoladenschnüffler
1986

My Sweet Little Village
1985

The Snowdrop Festival
1984
Tři v tom
1981

Cutting It Short
1981

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
1979

Secluded, Near Woods
1976

Who Looks for Gold?
1974

Mandragora
1971

Larks on a String
1969

Crime in the Night Club
1968

Capricious Summer
1968

Closely Watched Trains
1966

Crime at the Girls School
1966

Pearls of the Deep
1966

Our Dear Mr. Foerster Died
1963

Prefabricated Houses
1960

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018

The Interpreter
2018

More Than Words
2018

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016

The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
2016

Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“
2014
Milan Čorba
2014

Signál
2012
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
2012
Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions
2011

Operation Dunaj
2009
Setkání v Praze, s vraždou
2009

Teddy Bear
2007
A bárány utolsó megkísértése
2006

Zimní víla
2006

Pocta V+W
2005

Daddy
2004

The Sunken Cemetery
2002
Útek do Budína
2002

Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte
2001

All My Loved Ones
1999

Franciska vasárnapjai
1996

Vengeance Is Mine
1995

Too Loud A Solitude
1995

How to Deserve a Princess
1995

Joint Venture
1995

Everything I Like
1993

The Little Apocalypse
1993
Dr. Hrabal
1993

The Elementary School
1991
Tady vím, proč jsem
1991