Vojtěch Jasný

Jasný made feature and documentary films in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, USA & Canada, and was a notable figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.

He is best remembered for his movies The Cassandra Cat and All My Compatriots, both of which won prizes at Cannes Film Festival.

In 1929 his father bought a movie projector for a local Sokol club, which provided Jasný's first introduction to cinema.

After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia following the Prague Spring of 1968 he decided to leave the country.

Jasný made movies and taught at film schools in Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s.