Between Prague and Hollywood: Jan Sverak’s Films
Abstract
Sverak is the most known - as the 1997 Oscar winner for Kolya - representative of the so-called young Czech cinema, the generation of thirty- and forty-year olds, mostly graduates of the Prague Film Academy FAMU to whom Czech cinematography owes its mid-1990 renaissance. Wajda essays to describe the director's style, his earlier works (Zdenek Sverak, the screenwriter and Jan’s aavourite actor, is of great importance), including his debut feature Elementary School (1991), then Accumulator 1 (1994), The Ride (1994), Kolya and super production Dark Blue World (2001). According to Wajda, Sveerak's films owe their success - in terms of home box office revenue and international awards - to creative references to the poetics of the Czech school of the 1960s, with its tragicomic vision of the world and man, coupled with the skillful use of known conventions and genre patterns.
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Jan Svěrák, Czech cinema, FAMUReferences
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Katarzyna Wajdakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Absolwentka polonistyki i filmoznawstwa UJ, współautorka haseł i omówień w Encyklopedii kina (red. T. Lubelski, Kraków 2003), Słownika filmu (red. R. Syska, Kraków 2005) i Światowej encyklopedii filmu religijnego (red. ks. M. Lis i A. Garbicz, Kraków 2007).
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