Jan Zázvorka

Czech art director
Jan Zázvorka
Born(1914-05-02)2 May 1914
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died14 January 1991(1991-01-14) (aged 76)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
OccupationArt director
Years active1936–1986 (film)

Jan Zázvorka (2 May 1914 – 14 January 1991) was a Czech architect and art director.[1][2][3] He designed the film sets for more than a hundred productions in a career that spanned many decades. As an architect he worked on the National Monument at Vítkov and Praha-Smíchov railway station.

Selected filmography

  • Blackmailer (1937)
  • Arthur and Leontine (1940)
  • Ladies in Waiting (1940)
  • The Dancer (1943)
  • Fourteen at the Table (1943)
  • The Avalanche (1946)
  • Nobody Knows Anything (1947)

References

  1. ^ Cowie, Peter & Elley, Derek. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. p. 81
  2. ^ Czech Feature Film II: 1930-1945. Národní filmový archiv, 1995. p. 101
  3. ^ Soister, John T. & Nicolella, Henry. Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950. McFarland, 2016. p. 213

External links

  • Jan Zázvorka at IMDb


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