Jan Švankmajer

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Gender	Male
Age	89
Date of birth	September 4,1934
Zodiac sign	Virgo
Born	Prague
	Czechia
Spouse	Eva Švankmajerová
Children	Václav Švankmajer
	Veronika Hrubá
Awards	Czech Lion Award for Best Design
	Czech Lion Honorary Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film
	Czech Lion Award for Best Stage Design
	Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award for Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Nominations	Czech Lion Award for Best Screenplay
Books	Jan Švankmajer: Dimensions of Dialogue, Between Film and Fine Art
	Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art
	Švankmajer's Faust
	Evašvankmajerjan: Anima Animus Animation, Between Film and Free Expression
	Jan Svankmajer: transmutace smyslu - transmutation of the senses
Art directed	Lesson Faust
	Conspirators of Pleasure
	Lunacy
	Insects
	Et Cetera
Date of Reg.	2019-04-12 23:20:31
Date of Upd.	2023-06-16 12:35:58
ID	684968

Greedy Guts
Lunacy
Dimensions of Dialogue
Conspirators of Pleasure
Surviving Life
Insects
Food
Jabberwocky
Darkness, Light, Darkness
Lesson Faust
The Last Trick
The Ossuary
Meat Love
Punch and Judy
A Game with Stones
Historia naturae
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia
Et Cetera
Down to the Cellar
The Flat
Picnic with Weissmann
The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope
Garden
A Quiet Week in the House
The Fall of the House of Usher
Leonardo's Diary
The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: Vol. 2
J. S. Bach, Fantasia in G Minor
Don Juan
Castle of Otranto
Animated Self-Portraits
Virile Games
Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales
The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: Vol. 1
Flora
Another Kind of Love
La lección de Fausto
Alice

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Jan Švankmajer Life story

Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his stop-motion animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.