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17-442: Mág ( Magician ) is a 1988 Czech film directed by František Vláčil . The film is about Czech poet Karel Hynek Mácha . It is Vláčil's last film. The film received mixed reviews and critics called it a reflection of Vláčil's previous work. Mácha goes to Litoměřice where he accepted position as a Notary . He plans to marry Lori who is getting prepared for the wedding. Mácha's brother Michal comes instead of him and announces that Mácha

34-618: A number of awards. He won Czech Lion for Lifetime Work and Extraordinary Contribution to Czech Cinema and became the President of Czech Film and Television Academy. In 1997, Vláčil broke his left leg and was hospitalized. He was operated on but his operation was unsuccessful and had to be re-operated. The second operation was successful and he was allowed to leave hospital. He was only one day home when he fell into unconsciousness due to heart arrhythmia. He never recovered and died on 27 January 1999. When Vláčil started to make his own projects in

51-543: A short film Clouds of Glass which is considered his finest creation while in the army. It is the only film that Vláčil made in the military and was not determined by politics or genre. Clouds of Glass won an award at the Documentary and Short Film Festival in Venice. Vláčil left the army in 1958. Vláčil was employed at Barrandov Studios . He debuted with a short film "The Chase" (segment of No Entrance ). The film

68-418: Is a documentary Posádka na štítě that is about meteorologists working on Lomnický štít . The film shows contrast between a man and mountains. Vláčil also participated in the filmmaking of other directors. In 1955, Vláčil participated as an adviser in the making of the war film, Tank Brigade, coordinating battle scenes. His last military short was an instructory and motivational film Sebeobrana . He also made

85-443: Is about two members of the border-guard who chase an enemy agent. The film not a regular story about the border-guard but features a strong focus on the beauties of nature. He made his first full-length film The White Dove in 1960. The film received positive reviews and some awards. He made a historical film The Devil's Trap that was also a success. His next film was a historical drama Marketa Lazarová . He worked six years on

102-476: Is considered the first part of a loose trilogy of historical films by Vláčil, the others being Marketa Lazarová and The Valley of the Bees . The film's main theme is the conflict between religion and science. Religion is represented by a fanatical Jesuit priest, while science is represented by an old miller and his son. Vláčil wanted the film to depict the 17th century as authentically as possible. The film

119-494: Is dead. The film then switches to when Mácha and Lori met. Mácha and Lori met in Kajetán's theatre. The film shows Mácha's and Lori's relationship. It also shows Mácha's meeting with ill girl Márinka who is a fan of his poems. Mácha also hears that someone called Hynek killed his father in jealousy. It inspires Mácha to make his most famous poem, Máj . When Máj is released it is received negatively and Mácha needs to provide Lori who

136-701: Is pregnant and accepts position as a Notary in Litoměřice. He spends his free time at Rádobyce. One day there is a fire and Mácha helps but his organism succumbs illness and he dies. This article related to a Czech film of the 1980s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Franti%C5%A1ek Vl%C3%A1%C4%8Dil From 1945 to 1950, he studied aesthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno. Later, he worked in various groups and ateliers (e.g. on animated films), but his main focus became played film. His films are well known for high art quality. Vláčil

153-410: Is set in the early 17th century. The Regent of Valeč dislikes Spálený, the local miller, whom local people greatly respect. Spálený knows the local lands well, but his family is suspected of witchcraft due to an incident that occurred generations before. When Swedish soldiers arrive and plunder the land, they also burn the mill, but Spálený and his family miraculously survive. Probus, a fanatical priest,

170-496: The 1960s, he started heavily drinking. He believed that alcohol helped him in his work, helping him to reach his visions. His problems with alcohol worsened after he made Markéta Lazarová . After he finished the film, he looked "like a living skeleton". When he finished Adelheid , he collapsed. He underwent therapy and made Smoke on the Potato Field during a period of sobriety. Owing to the omission of his favourite scene from

187-492: The faculty of Arts at Masaryk University . He finished his studies in 1951. He was interested in filmmaking during his studies and worked as a screenwriter in Brno Cartoon and puppet film studio. He later went to newly formed Studio of Popular Scientific and Educational Films. He made 4 short documentary films in the studio. Vláčil worked in a studio of Czechoslovak military film during his compulsory military service. He

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204-462: The film, because it was destroyed, Vláčil starts drinking again. His alcoholism was not helping his work anymore. He tried to fight his alcoholism by making Snake's Venom . Vláčil's alcoholism led him to lose his family and friends. The Devil%27s Trap The Devil's Trap ( Czech : Ďáblova past ) is a 1962 Czechoslovak historical film directed by František Vláčil . It was inspired by Alfréd Technik 's novel Mlýn na ponorné řece . It

221-413: The film. He collaborated with significant designers of costumes and decorations, Theodor Pištěk , Jan Koblasa and others. The film was highly acclaimed and was voted the all-time best Czech movie in a prestigious 1998 poll of Czech film critics and publicists. The film was also very expensive and Vláčil was forced to make The Valley of the Bees , another historical film. The Valley of the Bees used

238-476: The same decorations so the expenditures of Markéta Lazarová could partially be repaid. The film starred Petr Čepek . Vláčil then worked with Čepek on his next film Adelheid . During the Normalization era, Vláčil was not allowed to make feature films and had to leave Barrandov Studio. He made some shorts films such as Art Nouveau's Prague . He was allowed to make another full-length film in 1976, it

255-585: Was a drama Smoke on the Potato Fields . His next film, thriller Shadows of a Hot Summer , won a Crystal Globe . Vláčil started to work with screenwriter Zdeněk Mahler and together they worked on some films. They made a biographical film Concert at the End of Summer . It was followed by other significant films Snake's Venom , Shades of Fern and Magician . These were his last films before he retired. After Velvet Revolution , Vláčil received

272-821: Was awarded many film prizes like the Prize of the International Film Festival 1998 in Karlovy Vary or the Czech Lion Prize for his longstanding contribution to world film culture. In 1998 Vláčil was voted the greatest Czech director of all time by a poll of Czech film critics. His film Marketa Lazarová is considered by some critics to be the best Czech film ever made. He spent childhood in north Moravia. He shortly studied Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague but switched to

289-411: Was in the military from 1951 to 1958. He met with cinematographer Jan Čuřík with whom he frequently collaborated during his career. He also met another director Karel Kachyňa . Vláčil's short films made in the military studio were mostly instructory and propagandist. His first film was a 1953 short Vzpomínka that commemorated deceased communist president Klement Gottwald . Another of his film shorts

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