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Jan Svankmajer

Highest Rated:
100% Alice (Neco z Alenky) (1988)
Lowest Rated:
67% Lunacy (2005)
Birthday:
Sep 4, 1934
Birthplace:
Prague, Czechoslovakia. [now Czech Republic]
Bio:
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…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 67% - 100%
Number of Movies: 31
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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2010 88% Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (Surviving Life (Theory and Practice))
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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2007 Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films
  • Director
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2006 Ossuary and Other Tales
  • Director
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2005 67% Lunacy
  • Director
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2000 84% Little Otik
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
  • Producer
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1997 86% Conspirators of Pleasure
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1994 78% Faust
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1992 Food (Jídlo)
  • Director
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1992 Scenes From the Surreal
  • Director
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1989 Meat Love (Fleischliche Liebe)
  • Director
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1989 Darkness, Light, Darkness
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1988 100% Alice (Neco z Alenky)
  • Director
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1988 The Male Game (Muzne Hry)
  • Director
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1983 Moznosti dialogu (Dimensions of Dialogue)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1983 Down to the Cellar (Do pivnice)
  • Director
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1981 Zánik domu Usheru (The Fall of the House of Usher)
  • Director
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1977 Castle of Otranto
  • Director
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1970 Kostnice (The Ossuary)
  • Director
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1970 Don Sanche
  • Director
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1969 Tichý týden v dome ,(A Quiet Week in the House )
  • Director
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1968 Zahrada
  • Director
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1968 Picknick mit Weissmann (Picnic with Weissmann)
  • Director
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1968 Byt (The Flat)
  • Director
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1967 Historia Naturae, Suita
  • Director
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1966 Et Cetera
  • Director
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1966 Rakvickarna (Punch and Judy)(The Coffin House)
  • Director
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1965 Hra s kameny (A Game with Stones)
  • Director
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1965 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia G-Moll
  • Director
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1964 Jan Svankmajer: Alchemist of the Surreal, Program 1
  • Director
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1964 Poslední trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara
  • Director
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