Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

Name: Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny
Director: Arkaitz Basterra Zalbide
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 77 min
Cast: Vojtěch Jasný, Rock Demers, Miloš Forman, René Böll, Josef Slimácek

(Life and Film (The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny))

20091h 17m

Documentary

Overview

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.