Profile of Jan Švankmajer
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Jan Švankmajer

Born
1934-09-04
Birthplace
Prague,
Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Born
1934-09-04
Birthplace
Prague
Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography

​   Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced......

Profile of Jan Švankmajer

Jan Švankmajer

Born
1934-09-04
Birthplace
Prague
Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Born
1934-09-04
Birthplace
Prague
Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography

​   Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.

63 titles with 155 credits

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The Visitors poster

1983

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Alice poster

1988

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Golden Sixties poster

2009

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Dimensions of Dialogue poster

1983

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Darkness, Light, Darkness poster

1990

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Little Otik poster

2001

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Food poster

1996

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Conspirators of Pleasure poster

1996

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Meat Love poster

1989

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Faust poster

1994

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Lunacy poster

2005

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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet poster

1978

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Flora poster

1989

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The Flat poster

1968

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Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) poster

2010

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Virile Games poster

1988

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The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia poster

1991

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Jabberwocky poster

1971

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The Three Veterans poster

1984

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Ferat Vampire poster

1982

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Punch and Judy poster

1966

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A Game with Stones poster

1965

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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians poster

1981

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Et cetera poster

1967

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The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope poster

1983

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A Quiet Week in the House poster

1969

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Down to the Cellar poster

1983

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J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor poster

1965

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Natural History Suite poster

1967

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The Last Trick poster

1964

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The Ossuary poster

1970

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The Garden poster

1968

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The Fall of the House of Usher poster

1982

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Visitors from the Galaxy poster

1981

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Picnic with Weismann poster

1968

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Leonardo's Diary poster

1972

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Castle of Otranto poster

1977

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Animated Self-Portraits poster

1989

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Insect poster

2018

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The Ninth Heart poster

1979

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Don Juan poster

1969

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The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer poster

2003

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Scalpel, Please poster

1986

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Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci poster

1981

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Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague poster

1990

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The Music of Zdeněk Liška poster

2017

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Man and Technology poster

1967

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Kunstkamera poster

2022

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Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) poster

2007

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Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval poster

1985

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Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) poster

2006

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Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem poster

1980

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Engi – Sound Designer Ivo Špalj poster

2023

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Hugh Cornwell: Another Kind of Love poster

1988

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Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory poster

2017

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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film poster

1984

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Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting poster

2018

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Jan Švankmajer: The Complete Short Films poster

2007

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Les Chimères des Švankmajer poster

2001

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Kikoe poster

2009

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Alchemical Furnace poster

2020

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Moje první benefice poster

1972

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The Magic Art of Jan Švankmajer poster

1992

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