Jan Schmidt

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Jan Schmidt was a Czech film director and actor, known for his work in Czechoslovak cinema. He directed several films between 1960 and 1995, including Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967) and The Lanfier Colony (1969). Schmidt's films often delved into dystopian and post-apocalyptic themes, reflecting the socio-political climate of his time. His contributions have left a lasting impact on Czech cinema. Schmidt passed away in 2019.

03-01-1934

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Place of Birth

03-01-1934

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

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Creative career

actor

8 Works

producer

0 Works

director

32 Works

writer

10 Works

other

5 Works

Love from the Passage

A drama based on the criminal youth life in Prague during eighties.

4.0

Year:

1985

Komediant

Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and greatly values the text of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, which he has acquired on his wanderings around the world.

5.0

Year:

1984

Putování Jana Amose

4.0

Year:

1983

Jehla

2.0

Year:

1982

You Are Not Alone

Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he forms a bond of friendship... that slowly grows into something more.

7.4

Year:

1978

The Night Guest

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration camp during WWII.

7.5

Year:

1961

Jarní povětří

7.0

Year:

1961

A Box of Film

A film about filmmaking.

0.0

Year:

1958