Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

09/01/2009

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1hr 17min

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Documentary

STORY

After being one of the most successful filmmakers in Europe in the sixties, Vojtech Jasny (Czech Republic, 1925) lives in a small apartment in New York. For Jasny, life and cinema are inseparable concepts. By visiting friends who still live in Life and Film Jasny first person will have their own history and some decisive events in his life: the Nazi invasion and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exile and his arrival in New York years later.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Vojtěch Jasný
  • Rock Demers
  • Miloš Forman
  • René Böll
  • Josef Slimácek

    Director

  • Arkaitz Basterra Zalbide

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Sonora Estudios
  • Axman Production

    Production Countries

  • Czech Republic
  • Spain

LANGUAGES

  • English