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Juraj Herz

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Slovak actor, director and scriptwriter (1934-2018)

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Juraj Herz was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best known for his 1969 horror/black comedy The Cremator, often cited as one of the best Czechoslovak films of all time, though many of his other films achieved cult status.

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Filmography 40

The Cremator1969 · ★ 7.8
The Shop on Main Street1965 · ★ 7.1
Beauty and the Beast1979 · ★ 7.6
Morgiana1972 · ★ 7.3
Lemonade Joe1964 · ★ 7.1
The Flat1968
Ferat Vampire1982
Habermann2010
The Last Trick1964
A Nice Plate of Spinach1977
If a Thousand Clarinets1965
The Junk Shop1965
Oil Lamps1971
The Ninth Heart1979
Pacho, the Brigand of Hybe1976
Day for My Love1977
The Frog Prince1991
A Girl Fit to Be Killed1976
The Pipes1966
Darkness2009
Journey to Rome2015
Transport from Paradise1963
Bulldogs and Cherries1981
Sweet Games of Late Summer1970
Girls from a Porcelain Factory1975
Passage1997
Caught by Night1986
The Limping Devil1968
Sign of the Cancer1967
Psíčci lorda Carltona1971
Sweet Troubles1984
Dívka a kouzelník2009
The Galoshes of Happiness1987
The Emperor's New Clothes1994
A Touch of a Butterfly1972
Volejte Martina1966
The Magpie in the Wisp1991
Fragile Relationships1980
Touha Sherlocka Holmese1972
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel2018

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Television 9

Maigret1991
Bavarian Film Awards1979
Gagman1988
Černí baroni2004
Černí andělé2001
Fantom operety1971
Bratislavské pondelky2021
Golden Sixties2009
Karel je Gott2019

Awards 4

2017Grand Officer of the Order of the White Double Cross
2004Annual award ACFK
1979Sitges Film Festival Best Director award
1972Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award

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Juraj Herz was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best known for his 1969 horror/black comedy The Cremator, often cited as one of the best Czechoslovak films of all time, though many of his other films achieved cult status. He directed for both film and television, and in the latter capacity he directed episodes of a French-Czech television series based on George Simenon's Maigret novels.

Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1934 to 2018 · aged 83
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19 languages

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