Jan SvankmajerFilmography

Born:
September 4, 1934 in Czechoslovakia
Occupation:
Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter
Biography:
The dark and surrealistic animated art of Czech animator Jan Svankmajer gained international renown in 1983 when his work from the 1960s was shown in a retrospective at the Annecy Animation Festival in France. Svankmajer received his education at the School of Applied Art and in the Puppetry...Read More

  • Lunacy

    Crew: Art Director, Director, Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerová, Jaroslav Dusek, Martin Huba

    Synopsis: A man who fears he's edging into madness gets a fresh perspective on what insanity really means in this frantic, visually inventive black comedy from Czech auteur Jan Svankmajer. Jean (Pavel Liska) is a deeply troubled man who has been haunted by violent hallucinations since the death of his Read More

    2005

  • Little Otik

    Crew: Art Director, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Veronika Zilkova, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerova, Pavel Nový

    Synopsis: Acclaimed animator Jan Svankmajer combines cartoon and live-action imagery to bring to life a bizarre story based on an old Czech folk tale. Karel (Jan Hartl) and Bozena (Veronika Zilkova) are a married couple who desperately want a child, but have been unable to conceive; Alzbetka (Kristina Read More

    12/19/01

  • Conspirators of Pleasure

    Crew: Art Director, Costume Designer, Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Petr Meissel

    Synopsis: Czech animator Jan Svankmajer gained acclaim and notoriety for his eerie, nightmarish stop-motion animated pieces fashioned out of discarded dolls, battered marionettes, and pieces of junk. His films such as Alice and Faust delved headlong into the subconscious and dredged up images that were Read More

    1996

  • Faust

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Petr Cepek

    Synopsis: This European fantasy features excellent and surprisingly imaginative clay animation combined with live-action to tell the story of a man who sells his soul to Satan without the benefit of a lawyer. Initially, Faust does not rise to the bait presented by Mephistopheles' assistants who encode their Read More

    1994

  • Jidlo

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1992

  • The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1990

  • Jan Svankmajer: Alchemist of the Surreal

    Crew: Director

    1990

  • Flora

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1989

  • Tma, Svetlo, Tma

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1989

  • Alice

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Set Designer

    Actors: Kristina Kohoutova

    Synopsis: Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, who gained a reputation for his short subjects, makes his feature-film debut with Neco z Alenky, a grotesque look into the darkest, wildest recesses of a child's mind. A surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's classic Alice in Wonderland, the Read More

    1988

  • Meat Love

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1988

  • Muzne Hry

    Crew: Director

    1988

  • Do Pivnice

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    1983

  • The Pendulum, the Pit, and the Hope

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jan Zácek

    1983

  • Moznosti Dialogu

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1982

  • The Fall of the House of Usher

    Crew: Animator, Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1980

  • Adela Jeste Nevecerela

    Crew: Special Effects

    Actors: Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Milos Kopecky, Ladislav Pesek, Nada Konvalinkova

    Synopsis: This oddball satire, a favorite of cult film festivals, is set in Prague during 1900. There, pulp fiction hero Nick Carter looks into a series of murders. Eventually he finds the killer, a large carnivorous plant named Adele. The film was created in the style of a silent melodrama. ~ Sandra Read More

    1978

  • Leonarduv Denik

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    1972

  • Jabberwocky

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Directed by Jan Svankmajer, this surrealist live-action adaptation of Lewis Carroll's poem The Jabberwocky (which can be found within the pages of Through the Looking Glass) is, for the most part, centered around the travels of a surprisingly mobile wardrobe. After a brief trip the forest, the Read More

    1971

  • Don Juan

    Crew: Director

    1970

  • Kostnice

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1970

  • Picnic With Weissman

    Crew: Animator, Director, Editor, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1969

  • Tichy Tyden V Dome

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1969

  • Zahrada

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    1968

  • Byt

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    1968

  • Et Cetera

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1966

  • Punch and Judy

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1966

  • Spiel Mit Steinen

    Crew: Director

    1965

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia G-Moll

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    1965

  • The Prize Winning Films of Jan Svankmajer

    Crew: Director

    1964

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