Juraj HerzFilmography

Born:: September 4, 1934
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Slovakian filmmaker and actor Juraj Herz began directing films in 1965 with Sberne Survosti/The Junk Shop (1965). Herz initially studied photography at an art school in Bratislava from 1951 to 1954. He then enrolled at Prague's film school, DAMU, to study puppetry. Following his graduation in...Read More

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T.M.A.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ivan Franek, Lenka Krobotova, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Andrej Hryc, Borik Prochazka

Synopsis: A man returns to his hometown only to find himself haunted by the ugly events of the past in this thriller from director Juraj Herz. Marek (Ivan Franek) is a successful musician who has grown tired of his career and decides he wants to devote his energies to making visual art. Marek moves away Read More

2008
Passage

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A businessman's day starts out badly and turns into a surrealistic nightmare. Forman is trapped in a traffic jam in the pouring rain when he realizes that he has forgotten to buy a gift for his 10th anniversary. Something goes wrong with his car and he ends up taking shelter in the entrance of a Read More

5/13/98
Froschkönig

Crew: Director

1990
Sladke Starosti

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1986
Galose Stastia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1986
Zastihla Me Noc

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jana Brejchova, Andrea Bogusovska, Jana Paulova, Jana Svobodova

Synopsis: The life and slow death of Communist journalist and Prague City Council member Jozka Jaburkova in the Ravensbruck concentration camp is the focus of this wartime drama starring Jana Rihakova as the tragic Jaburkova. Suffering almost from the beginning as an illegitimate child burdened with extreme Read More

1985
Upir Z Feratu

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jirí Menzel, Dagmar Veskrnova, Petr Cepek, Jana Brezkova, Jan Schmid

Synopsis: In a plot that needed a transfusion somewhere mid-stream, a vampire-mobile is the car of the hour for Madam Ferat, who uses its fanged gas pedal to draw blood from the foot of the driver as he, or she, accelerates -- for the car "runs" on blood. A physician begins to investigate the strange car Read More

1981
Buldoci a Tresne

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marian Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínsky

Synopsis: In this weak parody of gangster movies, Carmello Mushillo (Marian Labuda) is a low man in the hierarchy of Mafia dons, and when he angers the head honcho, he has to flee for his life to Prague with two companions. His flight through various locales and involvement with some petty criminals provide Read More

1981
Deváté Srdce

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ondrej Pavelka, Julie Juristova, Anna Malova, Frantisek Filipovsky, Josef Kemr

Synopsis: This is an interesting children's tale with a cast of splendid characters. Martin (Ondrej Pavelka) is a dashing student who has taken on the task of freeing a beautiful princess (Julie Juristova) from captivity. Her captor is an evil astrologer (Juraj Kukura) who needs real human hearts for his Read More

1978
Panna a Netvor

Crew: Director

Actors: Zdena Studenkova, Vlastimil Harapes, Jana Brejchova, Zuzana Kocurikova

Synopsis: In this Czechoslovak retelling of the classic tale about a prince cursed to bear a bestial countenance and live in a predatory manner until he can attain the love of a woman, the Beast (Vlastimil Harapes) is a particularly gruesome and chilling figure. One day, while out hunting, he encounters Read More

1978
Holka Na Zabiti

Crew: Director

Actors: Dagmar Veskrnova, Ilja Prachar, Vit Olmer, Josef Abrhám, Karel Augusta

Synopsis: While driving to Poland, a Czech man and woman have an argument. The woman gets out of the car to relieve herself, and the driver of the car runs over her, killing her. Meanwhile, in a Czech mountain town, a young man inquires after the girl, which piques the interest of the police. ~ Clarke Read More

1976
Den Pro Mou Lasku

Crew: Director

Actors: Jirina Sejbalova

Synopsis: The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even Read More

1976
Morgiana

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia, two sisters are rivals for an inheritance. One is oblivious to the contest, the other is quite mad but very determined. When the insane one tries to test the poison she means to kill her sister with, she accidentally kills Morgiana, her pet cat. This Read More

1972
Petrolejove Lampy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Iva Janzurová

Synopsis: This Czechoslovak film re-creates the latter days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Set in a small Czech town in the 1890s, in telling detail, the film shows us the deteriorating community and private life of Stepa (Iva Janzurova). Stepa has syphilis, an incurable, terminal disease. The penultimate Read More

1971
Spalovac Mrtvol

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Vlasta Chramostova, Ilja Prachar

Synopsis: A man in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia works as a cremator of dead bodies. He believes he is doing the souls of the dead a favor because of his beliefs in Tibetan religion. A Nazi convinces the man he has German blood in him and that his wife and children are Jewish. By now the man has been Read More

1968
Transport Z Raje

Actors: Zdenek Stepanek, Cestmir Randa, Ilja Prachar

Synopsis: Originally Transport Z Raje, the Czechoslovakian Transport from Paradise is set in an unusual World War II concentration camp. The lax Nazi guards permit their Jewish prisoners to roam freely about the camp and conduct their own business and social affairs, without the threat of instant Read More

1962