
Jan Švankmajer
- film director
- sculptor
- animator
- photographer
- screenwriter
- painter
- poet
- puppet designer
- graphic artist
- ceramicist
- director
- exhibition curator
- draftsperson
- production designer
- scenographer
- film screenwriter
- artist
- Born 1934-09-04 (age 92)
- Nationality Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
- Years active 1964–present
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Filmography
See full filmography| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Lunacy | Movie | 71 |
Career timeline
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1934 age 0
Born1965 age 31
1969 age 35
1971 age 37
1981 age 47
1983 age 49
1989 age 55
1993 age 59
1994 age 60
2000 age 66
2005 age 71
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Censorship has an advantage of making you express yourself in very inventive ways and to think in symbols…those are the only weapons you have against censorship. It also helps by filling your desk drawers with mountains of rejected scripts you can use later in life, if you’re as lucky as I am.
Jan Švankmajer, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Personal details
- Nationalities
- Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
- Languages
- Czech
- Years active
- 1964–
- Notable works
- Alice
- Education
- Faculty of Theatre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague