Ladislav Smoljak
Directing
December 9, 1931
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague. Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter. Together with Zdeněk Svěrák he founded the Theater of Jára Cimrman (Divadlo Járy Cimrmana, DJC) in Prague, named after a fictitious genius. Smoljak wrote scripts and directed several films; these became very successful in the Czech Republic. He died of cancer on 6 June 2010 in Kladno.
Movies
Murder in a Parlor Car Compartment
1997
The Immortal Woman
1993
Ball Lightning
1979
An Uncertain Season
1988
Accumulator 1
1994
Kolya
1996
What's Up Doc?
1985
The Hit
1981
Lijavec
1997
Secluded, Near Woods
1976
Czech Heaven
2008
Pub in the Glade
1997
Blaník
1997
Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan
1997
The Nude
1998
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
1976
Plum Tree
1997
Daddy
2004
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
1983
Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book
1998
