Prominent film, television and radio actor, comedian, moderator and entertainer. One of the most popular Czech actors of the second half of the 20th century.
One of the most famous and widely acclaimed Czech directors, a prominent theatre director, active also as a theatre and film actor. In 1960s he was one of the most distinctive faces of the New Wave.
Director and creator of animated films, illustrator of children’s books. Author of the internationally famous character Mole and the legendary logo of the Trick Brothers studio.
The protagonist of an animated television series regularly broadcast in the show Večerníček. Several generations of not only Czech children, but those in other countries as well, have grown up watching it.
Czech director, screenwriter, documentarist, actor, film producer, film score composer, pedagogue. One of the most prominent and most provocative artist of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
The term Czechoslovak New Wave or Czech New Wave refers to the generation of film directors and screenwriters who began working in 1960s. It is one of the pinnacles of world cinematography and the only Czechoslovak filmmaking movement to enter the history of world art. The unofficial, unorganised movement, also called “the spring of Czechoslovak film”, ended with the advent of Normalisation at the beginning of 1970s. The Czechoslovak New Wave is generally regarded as one of the most important movements in world cinematography after Italian Neorealism.
Czech film actor from the 1930s and 1940s, who played roles of lovers, and Czech-German chemist who worked with NASA on the development of the space shuttle.
Prominent Czech theatre and film actor, theatre director, operetta and chanson singer. He is regarded as the pioneer of Czech musical acting and was one of the biggest film stars during the First Republic.
Important Czech director and screenwriter, one of the most important figures of the New Wave, also a painter, sculptor, caricaturist and writer. He worked with Miloš Forman and Ivan Passer.
Prose writer whose works are mostly set in the industrial region of northern Bohemia. The quality of his works is very diverse: from social satire to schematic regime works and fantasy.
Distinguished Czech director and screenwriter, famous abroad as well. One of the most acknowledged figures of the New Wave of Czechoslovak film.
Director, screenwriter, animator, drawer, puppeteer and one of the most prominent figures of Czech trick film. As an author of many popular children’s films, he became famous abroad as well and won a number of prestigious awards.
One of the most successful and popular Czech film screenwriters and directors, and media entrepreneur. Author of popular family comedies in the 1970s and 80s.
Theatre and film actor, director, screenwriter, dramatist, mime and clown. He is currently one of the most popular film and television actors in the Czech Republic, known abroad as well.
World-famous Czech theatre and film director. One of the founders of the multimedia theatre Laterna magika.
Charismatic film, theatre and television actor, also active and well known abroad. One of the most distinctive contemporary Czech actors and one of a few Czech actors that have achieved success in Hollywood.
Prominent Czech theatre, film and television actress, narrator of fairy tales, voice actress. One of the most distinctive Czech actresses of the 20th century.
A film that was a watershed in Czechoslovak cinematography and foreshadowed the New Wave. It was the first Czechoslovak film to win an Oscar (1966).
Traveller and film maker. One of only two Czechoslovak women to travel around the world before the Second World War.
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