Jiří Menzel was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor and screenwriter who lived from 23 February 1938 to 5 September 2020. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography, and some are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Closely Watched Trains is listed here as a work credited to him. The facts recorded here come from the English Wikipedia article on this person, who is named as a creator in the infobox of at least one work listed in this atlas.
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AwardAcademy Award for Best International Feature Film 1 Jiří Menzel
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1. Wikipedia: Jiří Menzel
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23 February 1938
Article body: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
His first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967.
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was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter
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Larks on a String (Wikipedia)
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