1. Juraj Jakubisko directed fifteen feature films, between 1967 and 2008.
17 Facts About Juraj Jakubisko
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Juraj Jakubisko often took on the dual role of cinematographer in his films, as well as writing or co-writing the scripts.
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Juraj Jakubisko graduated in 1965 and began working with Alfred Radok at the Laterna Magika theatre in Prague.
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Juraj Jakubisko began winning international acclaim with his experimental short films before making his first feature Crucial Years in 1967.
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Juraj Jakubisko's career was heavily impacted by political events in Czechoslovakia, with his work facing censorship in the period following the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion in response to the Prague Spring.
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Juraj Jakubisko filmed Three Sacks of Cement and a Live Rooster in 1976, but it was not released until 1978.
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Juraj Jakubisko returned to feature film-making in 1979 with Build a House, Plant a Tree, which was nonetheless banned for its anti-regime messages, but not before it received a positive reception at a film festival in Amsterdam.
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The success in Amsterdam proved invigorating for Juraj Jakubisko's work, leading to a fertile period, culminating in the 1983 epic The Millennial Bee.
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In 1985, Juraj Jakubisko directed a children's film, The Feather Fairy, featuring Giulietta Masina, the wife of Federico Fellini, with whom Juraj Jakubisko had a close friendship.
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Juraj Jakubisko's film Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself, released three months before the end of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, won Jakubisko more international acclaim, including the Grand Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1990.
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Juraj Jakubisko's next feature film was An ambiguous report about the end of the world, a satirical comedy based on the prophecies of Nostradamus.
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In 1998 Juraj Jakubisko joined the European Film Academy, and was awarded the Maverick Award by the Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival.
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Juraj Jakubisko was reputed to have bathed in the blood of young Slovak women.
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In 2013 Juraj Jakubisko published the first part of his autobiography, Zive stribro.
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Juraj Jakubisko was working on a fairy tale, a sequel of The Feather Fairy.
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Juraj Jakubisko died in Prague on 24 February 2023, at the age of 84.
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Juraj Jakubisko has been awarded at more than eighty international film festivals.