Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 1, 2009

Runtime

1h 17m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Life and Film (The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny)

Production Companies

Sonora Estudios, Axman Production

Director

Arkaitz Basterra Zalbide

Description

After being one of the most successful filmmakers in Europe in the sixties, Vojtech Jasny (Czech Republic, 1925) lives in a small apartment in New York. For Jasny, life and cinema are inseparable concepts. By visiting friends who still live in Life and Film Jasny first person will have their own history and some decisive events in his life: the Nazi invasion and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exile and his arrival in New York years later.