Vojtěch Jasný, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vojtěch Jasný

Czech photographer and director

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1925

Place of Birth: Kelč, Zlín Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 16-Nov-2019

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, film director

Nationality: United States, Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Vojtech Jasný (30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties.
He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for The Cassandra Cat (1963).
He was born in Kelc in Moravia.An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR-led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968.
Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s.
Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years (where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co-Chair) and taught at School of Visual Arts (SVA) and New York Film Academy (NYFA). Among others of Jasný's works is All My Compatriots (1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968.
He died in Prerov in November 2019, fifteen days shy of his 94th birthday.