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JURAJ HERZ FILMOGRAPHY
2014
SLOVAKIA 2.0, episode HONORARY CITIZEN (Čestný občan; 10 min.; Slovakia)
2010
HABERMANN (Habermannův mlýn; 104 min.; Czech Republic, Germany, Austria)
2009
THE GIRL AND THE MAGICIAN (Dívka a kouzelník; 95 min.; Czech Republic) - TV
DARKNESS (T.M.A., 111 min.; Czech Republic, Slovakia)
2005
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (Miluj bližního svého; 55 min.; Czech Republic) - TV
2004
BLACK BARONS (Černí baroni; 11x51 min.; Czech Republic) - TV
SECRET DREAMS (Tajné sny; 80 min.; Czech Republic)- TV
2001
THE POLITICIAN AND THE ACTRESS (Politik a herečka; 79 min.; Czech Republic) - TV
EXPERIMENT (Experiment; 51 min.; Czech Republic) - TV
1998
SPERLING AND THE SLEEPING GIRL (Der Sperling und das schlafende Mädchen; 87 min., Germany) - TV
1996
MAIGRET SETS A TRAP (Maigret tend un piège; 96 min.; France, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic) - TV
PASSAGE (Pasáž; 98; 110 min.; Czech Republic, France, Belgium)
1994
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (Des Kaiser neue Kleider; 91 min.; Germany, Czech Republic)
MAIGRET AND A MAN'S HEAD (Maigret et la tête d'un homme; 96 min.; France, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic)
1993
LARA: MY LIFE WITH BORIS PASTERNAK (Lara - Meine Jahre mit Boris Pasternak; 86 min.; Germany) - TV documentary
VISION 2000: PRESIDENT HAVEL (Vize 2000: Prezident Havel; 54 min.; Germany, Czech Republic) - TV documentary
1992
DUMB AUGUSTINE (Die dumme Augustine; 87 min.; Germany)
1991
THE FROG KING (Froschkönig; 90 min.; Germany, Czechoslovakia)
WOLFGANG (Wolfgang; 3x47 min.; Austria, Germany) - TV
1988-89
AUGUST '39 - ELEVEN DAYS BETWEEN FREEDOM AND WAR (August´39 - Elf Tage zwischen Frieden und Krieg; 12x15 min.; Germany) - TV
1987
LOVE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH (Liebe ist stärker als der Tod; 90 min.; Germany) - TV
1986-87
GAGMAN (6x30 min.; Czechoslovakia, Germany) - TV
1986
GALOSHES OF HAPPINESS (Galoše šťastia; 92 min.; Czechoslovakia, Germany)
1985
CAUGHT BY NIGHT (Zastihla mě noc; 130 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1984
SWEET TROUBLES (Sladké starosti; 85 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1983
MAGPIE IN THE HAND (Straka v hrsti; 96 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1981
FERAT VAMPIRE (Upír z Feratu; 93 min.; Czechoslovakia)
BULLDOGS AND CHERRIES (Buldoci a třešně; 99 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1979
FRAGILE RELATIONSHIPS (Křehké vztahy; 83 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1978
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Panna a netvor; 84 min.; Czechoslovakia)
THE NINTH HEART (Deváté srdce; 88 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1976
A DAY FOR MY LOVE (Den pro mou lásku; 88 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1975
A GIRL FIT TO BE KILLED (Holka na zabití; 102 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1974
GIRLS FROM THE PORCELAIN FACTORY (Holky z porcelánu; 98 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1973
THE WANDERING ENGELBERT (Toulavý Engelbert; 65 min.; Czechoslovakia) - TV
1972
PLOSKOVICE NOCTURNE (Ploskovické nokturno; 26 min.; Czechoslovakia)
WILLIAM THE BAKER AND CHARMING NADYA (Pekař Vilém a sličná Naďa; 7 min.; Czechoslovakia) - TV
MORGIANA (99 min.; Czechoslovakia)
TOUCH OF A BUTTERFLY (Dotek motýla; 50 min.; Czechoslovakia) - TV
1971
OIL LAMPS (Petrolejové lampy; 101 min.; Czechoslovakia)
NIGHTMARES OF NAĎA URBÁNKOVÁ (Noční můry Nadi Urbánkové; 25 min.; Czechoslovakia) - TV
1970
THE CAT (Kočka; 90 min.; Czechoslovakia) - TV
1969
SWEET GAMES OF LATE SUMMER (Sladké hry minulého léta; 66 min.; Czechoslovakia) - TV
1969
THE CREMATOR (Spalovač mrtvol; 95 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1967
THE LIMPING DEVIL (Kulhavý ďábel; 80 min.; Czechoslovakia)
1966
SIGN OF CANCER (Znamení raka; 87min.; Czechoslovakia)
1965
THE JUNK SHOP (Sběrné surovosti; 31 min.; Czechoslovakia)
Portrait of Juraj Herz by Marek Mrviš,
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THE JUNK SHOP (Sběrné surovosti, 1965)
A work of nonstop invention set over the course of a single day at a paper recycling facility frequented by oddballs, including manager and aesthete Bohoušek, based on Bohumil Hrabal's life and a story from his book Pearls of the Deep.
SIGN OF CANCER (Znamení raka, 1966)
A warped detective story that begins with a murder in a hospital, the investigation of which reveals rampant incompetence, the film’s implicitly critical depiction of a public service sector overloaded with underqualified Party stooges would land Herz in trouble with censors for what was not to be the last time. New subtitles!
THE CREMATOR (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969)
Herz's masterpiece, in a new digital restoration released by Janus Films in North America, is set in 1930s Prague, where Nazi ideology hangs as thick as the charnel fumes over the crematorium run by the troubled Karel Kopfrkingl. This macabre and harrowing work of psychological and social breakdown was banned after its 1969 debut only to re-emerge and garner deserved praise twenty years later.
OIL LAMPS (Petrolejové lampy, 1971)
Contender for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1972, this early 20th Century period piece is set in a provincial town, Jilemnice, that’s riven by repressed desire and smoldering secrets. Herz plumbs deep within the psychology of his characters in this gripping and gorgeous film, which investigates the rot beneath the decoration and decorum of the Secession era. New subtitles!
MORGIANA (1972)
A Gothic drama about two sisters, Klára and Viktorie—both played by Iva Janžurová, in an amazing double-role performance—are put at loggerheads when the sweet, vapid Klára receives the better part of their father’s sprawling estate and the love of the man that Viktorie adores, leading the spurned sibling to venomous thoughts of murder.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Panna a netvor, 1978)
A tale you’ll know well—innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed, freakish beast living in isolation, and learns to live with and love her captor—but turned into something very different in Herz’s morbid imagining. New subtitles!
FERAT VAMPIRE (Upír z Feratu, 1981)
A satire on consumerism, a potent piece of anti-automobile propaganda, and perhaps the purest horror exercise that Herz produced. Starring the excellent Jiří Menzel (the Oscar winning film director) in the lead role of Dr. Marek. New subtitles!
CAUGHT BY NIGHT (Zastihla mě noc, 1985)
Conceived as a biography of Communist journalist Jožka Jabůrková, a victim of Ravensbrück, Herz went his own way, creating a nauseously stylized vision of hell on earth that is, with Wanda Jakubowska’s 1948 The Last Stage, one of only two fiction films made by a camp survivor about the experience.
GOLDEN SIXTIES: JURAJ HERZ (Zlatá šedesátá, dir. Martin Šulík, 2009)
An illuminating portrait of Juraj Herz from a 27-part TV series about masters of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
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