movie poster

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

2009

77 minutes

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.

Top Cast

Vojtěch Jasný headshot

Vojtěch Jasný

Self

Rock Demers headshot

Rock Demers

Self

Miloš Forman headshot

Miloš Forman

Self

René Böll headshot

René Böll

Self

Josef Slimácek headshot

Josef Slimácek

Self

Robert Lantz headshot

Robert Lantz

Self