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Juraj Jakubisko
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30 April 1938 - 24 February 2023
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Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko graduated from FAMU in 1965, where he directed several internationally recognized experimental films, including his 1965 graduation film, Waiting for Godot. Juraj was born in Eastern Slovakia and was greatly influenced by his teacher, director Vaclav Wasserman, who urged him to draw inspiration and themes from the traditions of folk culture. His three films Kristove roky/Crucial Years (1967) (Zbehovia a putnici/Il disertore e i nomadi/The Deserter and the Nomads)
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Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko graduated from FAMU in 1965, where he directed several internationally recognized experimental films, including his 1965 graduation film, Waiting for Godot. Juraj was born in Eastern Slovakia and was greatly influenced by his teacher, director Vaclav Wasserman, who urged him to draw inspiration and themes from the traditions of folk culture. His three films Kristove roky/Crucial Years (1967) (Zbehovia a putnici/Il disertore e i nomadi/The Deserter and the Nomads) (1968) (released in Czechoslovakia in 1990) and Vtackovia siroty a blazni/Les Oiseaux les orphelins et les fous/Birds Orphans and Fools) (released in Czechoslovakia's typical post-Gazan art style). After the Soviet invasion, the director was unable to make feature films until 1979, when he returned to the big screen with Postavv dom zasadd stroom/Build a Housee Plant a Tree and achieved international acclaim with the 1983 film Tisicrocna vcela/Die Tausendjahrige Biene/The Thousand Year Old Bee. This was followed by Hans Andersen's 1985 adaptation of "Mother Carey" with Juliet Masina. Then he shot for German television "Auntie Frankenstein" (Frankensteins Tante). Started in 1970, he finally finished his film, "See You in Hell Fellows!" in 1990. He returned to his early style in Sedim na konari a je mi dobre and its sequel Lepsiee byt bohaty a zdravy ako chudobny a chory/It is Bette to be Rich and Handsome than Poor and Ugly (1992). The latter satirically ridicules both the new capitalism and the delusions of Slovak nationalism.