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Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.
Juraj Herz was born on 4 September 1934 in Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a director and actor, known for Habermann (2010), The Cremator (1969) and Beauty and the Beast (1978). He was married to Therese Herz. He died on 8 April 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Juraj Herz (4. září 1934 Kežmarok – 8. dubna 2018) byl slovenský režisér, scenárista a herec židovského původu. Pocházel ze židovské rodiny, byl pokřtěn, pak byl ateistou. Studoval fotografii na Umělecko-průmyslové škole v Bratislavě a později režii a loutkoherectví na DAMU v Praze. V letech 1960–1961 hrál a režíroval v pražském divadle Semafor.
Juraj Herz, one of the most unique voices to come out of the Czech New Wave, has sadly died at the age of 83. He left an important legacy to Czechoslovakian cinema, much of which is still under-explored outside of his native homeland.
Apr 8, 2020 · Juraj Herz’s diverse repertoire is evidence that great horror cinema has endless experimental routes at its behest.
Apr 9, 2018 · The renowned horror director Juraj Herz died on Sunday at the age of 83, the Czech News Agency reported. The Slovak-born director, who moved to Prague in the late 1950s, was perhaps best-known...
Apr 8, 2018 · Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 9 April 2018) was a Czech film director, actor, and scenic designer who was born when Kežmarok was a part of Czechoslovakia. He has directed for both film and television; and in the latter capacity, he has directed episodes of a joint French-Czech television series based on the Maigret novels of ...
The career of Slovak-born film director Juraj Herz, who died last April at the age of 83, straddled that of the highly adaptable professional and that of the visionary auteur.
Apr 18, 2018 · Before we lost Milos Forman and Vittorio Taviani over the weekend, the Slovak Spectator reported that Juraj Herz, the Czech actor and director best known for his 1968 film The Cremator, had passed away at the age of eighty-three.
Apr 20, 2020 · From 1965 until his death in 2018, at age eighty-three, Juraj Herz made startling, exuberantly stylized films that borrow the frameworks and visual grammar of horror, fantasy, suspense, or costume drama. April 20, 2020. Criterion Collection.
