Vladimír Michálek is a Czech film director

Film director

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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Life

Michálek graduated from Czech film Academy FAMU, Prague, in 1992. Starting during his academic study he was filming documentaries. He joined the Barrandov Studios

Barrandov Studios

Barrandov Studios is a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe.Several of the movies filmed there won Academy Awards...

 as assistant director, where he worked with Andrew Birkin (Burning Secret

Burning Secret

Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. The film was written and directed by Andrew Birkin, and stars Klaus Maria...

), Reinhard Hauff, Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff

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 (The Shooter

The Shooter (1995 film)

The Shooter also known as Hidden Assassin is a 1995 American action drama directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Dolph Lundgren as a CIA agent who gets caught up in politics when he is hired to solve the assassination of a Cuban ambassador....

), Margarethe von Trotta and Bernhard Wicky. He is married and has three children.

Work

1994 was the year of the release of his first feature film

Feature film

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, Amerika, a free adaptation of the Kafka novel

Amerika (Kafka novel)

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. In 1996 Forgotten Light followed, a film adaption of the Jakub Deml

Jakub Deml

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 novel. The film ran on the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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, as did this next movie, Sekal Has to Die, two years later. The latter won ten Czech Lion awards, including Best Direction, and succeeded Forgotten Light as the Czech Oscar

Academy Awards

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-nominee. As with America, he wrote the screenplay for his film Angel Exit 2000. The film won the 2002 Daring Digital Award on the Jeonju International Film Festival

Jeonju International Film Festival

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Autumn Spring (2001), starring Vlastimil Brodský

Vlastimil Brodský

Vlastimil Brodský was a respected Czech actor. He appeared in over 90 films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema....

 in his last role, received favorable reviews, including in The New York Times

The New York Times

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 and The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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. It won a number of prizes, such as the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2003 The Comedy Festival, as well as the Audience Awards of each the 2002 Cleveland International Film Festival

Cleveland International Film Festival

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, the 2002 St. Louis International Film Festival

St. Louis International Film Festival

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 and the 2003 Sedona Film Festival

Sedona Film Festival

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He is also working for TV productions such as the 2003 series Záchranári. He directed the music videos for the song Černí andělé (Black Angels) by the band Lucie, and Chinaski

Chinaski

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's Podléhám.

Documentary Films

• In the Temple of Nature (1987)
• The Painful Silence (1990)
• Oh Mr. Anderson (1992)

Feature Films

• Amerika (also screenplay, 1994)
• Forgotten Light
  Forgotten Light
  Forgotten Light is a 1996 Czech film directed by Vladimír Michálek and written by Milena Jelinek. It was the Czech Republic's submission to the 70th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee....
  
  (Zapomenuté světlo, 1996)
• Sekal Has to Die
  Sekal Has to Die
  Sekal Has to Die is a 1998 Czech film directed by Vladimír Michálek. It was the Czech Republic's submission to the 71st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee....
  
  (Je třeba zabít Sekala, 1998)
• Prague Stories (compilation contribution, also screenplay, 1999)
• Angel Exit (screenplay written with Jáchym Topol
  Jáchym Topol
  Jáchym Topol is a Czech writer.- Life :Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí...
  
  , Anděl Exit, 2000)
• Autumn Spring (Babí léto 2001)
• Of Parents and Children (also screenplay, O rodičích a dětech, 2008)
• City of Birds (Město ptáků, upcoming)