
Birthday:
08-02-1935
Deathday:
05-20-1989 (53 years)
Birthplace:
Príbram, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
Pavel Juráček was a Czech screenwriter and film director who studied at FAMU. Although not as famous as Miloš Forman or Jiří Menzel, he was an exponent of the Czech New Wave as well. He worked at Prague Barrandov Studios; however after his satirical movie Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) was shelved, his movie career came to an end.
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A Box of Film
Act like Self
event1958
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A film about filmmaking.
An Occasion to Speak
Act like Self
event1966
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Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Act like Self
event2018 star_border 6.5
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An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
Golden Sixties
Act like Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event2009
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Television series Golden Sixties examines new insights into Czech and Slovak cinema of the 1960s and the role of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Each episode focuses on a different filmmaker.
Ceiling
Story (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 5.1
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The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.
Joseph Kilian
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 6.7
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The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. Harold tries to find the elusive Joseph Kilian, an old acquaintance, in Prague. When Harold stumbles across a state-run cat-lending store, he impulsively rents a feline for the day. Later, he attempts to return the cat and finds that the store no longer exists. Now with a furry companion, Harold continues his search for Kilian. Written and directed by Pavel Juracek, this 40 minute film effectively aims its allegorical shots at personality cults and the absurdities of a totalitarian regime.
Ikarie XB 1
Story (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 6.8
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The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.
Every Young Man
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.5
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Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer second segment, shot with the help of the Czechoslovakia army, the soldiers pass the time during basic training and maneuvers by talking about girls.
Nobody Will Laugh
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7
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A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand.
Daisies
Story (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7.3
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Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Kinoautomat
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 7.3
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Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.
Case for a Rookie Hangman
Director (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.8
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Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Fruit of Paradise
Creative Producer (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.4
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An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.
Krvavý román
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1969
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The television adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's satirical short story.
Larks on a String
Creative Producer (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.9
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In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Diane's Body
Creative Producer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 3.5
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Diane is married to Julien, an architect. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving to France. Julien becomes extremely jealous when he suspects Diane of having a lesbian affair with a ballet dancer. His incessant questions and insane jealousy make Diane resentful to the point she considers pushing him off a cliff.
Nevěsta
Creative Producer (1 ep.)
event1970
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The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.
The Jester's Tale
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 7.5
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An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures before they find happiness. The film combines live action with animation to suggest the artistic style of the engraver Matthäus Merian.
The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver
Book (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7
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A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1968.
On the Great River
Story (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7
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Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
Settlement of Crows
Story (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.3
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First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
House Call
Story (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 8
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Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
The End of August at the Hotel Ozone
Story (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.2
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A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
Black and White Sylva
Writer (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 9
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A character from a musical film falls into the real world in this short, predating similar films by Woody Allen (The Purple Rose of Cairo) and Wojciech Marczewski (Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema).
Cars Without a Home
Dialogue (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 6.3
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Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.
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