Hugo biography barrandov film
- Hugo Haas was born on February 19, 1901, in Brno (today's Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) as the second son of shoe trader.
- His uncle Miloš Havel (1899–1968) founded the AB Film Works in Barrandov and was a leading Czech film producer in the 1930s.
- A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská.
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Babylon A.D.
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2008 film by Mathieu Kassovitz
Babylon A.D. is a 2008 science-fictionaction film directed and co-written by Mathieu Kassovitz, based on the 1999 novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec. It stars Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jérôme Le Banner, Charlotte Rampling, and Gérard Depardieu. It was an international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[4]
The film was released in France on August 29, 2008 by StudioCanal. It received generally negative reviews, and failed to meet commercial expectations. Mathieu Kassovitz disowned the finished film, claiming 20th Century Fox had interfered throughout production and that the film did not represent his intended vision.[6]
Plot
In a dystopian[7] near future,[8] a Russian mobster, Gorsky, hires the mercenary Toorop to bring a young woman known only as Aurora from Asia to New York City. Gorsky gives Toorop a v
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Jireš, Jaromil
Nationality: Czech. Born: Bratislava, 10 December 1935. Education: Film technical school, Cmelice; the FAMU Film Faculty, Prague, graduate in photography, 1958, and direction, 1960. Family: Married Hana Jirešová. Career: Worked with Polyecran and the Magic Lantern, 1960–62; director of feature films, Barrandov Film Studio, from 1963; director of documentary films at Short Film Prague, from 1965; also TV director, from 1974, specialising in opera and ballet, late 1980s; president of Association of Czech Film Directors, from 1992. Awards: Great Prize, Oberhausen, for The Romance, 1966; Prize San Sebastian, for The Joke, 1969; Grand Premio, Bergamo, 1970, and Silver Hugo, Chicago, 1973, for Valerie and the Week of Wonders; Silver Prize, Berlin, 1982, and Best Director, Calcutta, 1983, for Partial Eclipse; Critics' Choice, AFI International Film Festival, for The Labyrinth, 1992; Great Prize, Harare, for Helimadoe, 1994. Address: Na ostrohu 42, Praha 6, 160 00, Czech Republic.
Films as Director:
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Horečka (Fever) (doc) (+ sc)
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1936
VH is born on 5 October into a bourgeois family active in the public life of the First Czechoslovak Republic. His father Václav Maria Havel (1897–1979) was an entrepreneur in the construction industry: his projects included the Barrandov Terraces and the Barrandov residential area. His grandfather Vácslav Havel (1861–1921) built the Lucerna Palace in Prague. His uncle Miloš Havel (1899–1968) founded the AB Film Works in Barrandov and was a leading Czech film producer in the 1930s. His mother Božena Havlová (1913–1970) was interested in fine arts. She was the daughter of diplomat Hugo Vavrečka (1880–1952), who published under the pseudonym Hugo Vavris.
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1938
Brother Ivan M. Havel, a future computer scientist and philosopher, is born.
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1939–1945
During WWII the family were based outside Prague, mainly at their country residence at Havlov in South Moravia and in Zlín.
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14.3.1945
Havel, Václav > Vavrečková, Josefína
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28.3.1945
Havel, Václav > Vavrečka, Hugo
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11.1.1946
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