Jiří Menzel (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Jiří Menzel

Looking for reviews of films directed by Jiří Menzel? Cinafilm has a total of 176 reviews across 4 movies directed by Jiří Menzel.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 66%.

I Served the King of England is Jiří Menzel's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 169 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Jiří Menzel is Pearls of the Deep, with a score of 59% based on 3 reviews.

Director Biography

Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪriː ˈmɛntsl] is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine and humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.

Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His controversial film Larks on and the String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.

Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.

Jiří Menzel has directed films starring Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Abrhám, Rudolf Hrušínský and Rudolf Hrušínský.

Jiří Menzel has collaborated with these film directors: Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová and Jaromil Jireš.