Jan Svankmajer

Jan Svankmajer was born on Sep 04, 1934 in Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Jan Svankmajer's big-screen debut came with The Flat directed by Jan Svankmajer in 1968. Jan Svankmajer is known for Surviving Life directed by Jan Svankmajer, Václav Helsus stars as Evzen and Klára Issová as Evzenie. Jan Svankmajer has got 38 awards and 20 nominations so far. The most recent award Jan Svankmajer achieved is Czech Lions. The upcoming new movie Jan Svankmajer plays is Insect which will be released on Feb 19, 2018.

After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after becoming involved with the multimedium productions of Prague's Lanterna Magika Theatre. He began making short films in 1964, and continued working in the same medium for over twenty years, when he finally achieved his long-held ambition to make a feature film based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Alice (1988)). He has also exhibited his drawings, collages and 'tactile sculptures', many of which were produced in the mid-1970s, when he was temporarily banned from film-making by the Czech authorities. He has been a card-carrying member of the Prague Surrealist Group since 1969.