# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-svitak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:53:11.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-svitak"
name: "Jan Sviták"
slug: "jan-svitak"
description: "Jan Sviták was a Czech actor and film director. He was an important exponent of Czechoslovak film in the interwar period and during World War II. Sviták was murdered shortly after the liberation of Prague in 1945."
tagline: "Czech actor and film director (1895-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Svit%C3%A1k_(1895-1945).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1895-12-27"
deathDate: "1945-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.48
  momentum:             4.5
  historical:           5.270554666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841324/"
    handle:    "nm0841324"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Svit%C3%A1k"
    title: "Jan Sviták"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "چان سڤيتاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Svit%C3%A1k"
    title: "Jan Sviták"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9"
    title: "یان سویتاک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Svit%C3%A1k"
    title: "Jan Sviták"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161763"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/544285"
    title: "Jan Sviták"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump