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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 (1934-2018) was a filmmaker known for his dark and surreal works, such as The Cremator and Beauty and the Beast. He also acted in several films, including Journey to Rome and Ferat Vampire, and wrote screenplays based on Alfred Jarry and other authors.
- January 1, 1
- Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]
- January 1, 1
- Prague, Czech Republic
The director of The Cremator, Morgiana and many more gothic gems still awaiting discovery in the West, Herz was an anomaly amongst his Czech New Wave contemporaries. He died at the age of 83, leaving an important legacy to Czechoslovakian cinema, much of which is still under-explored outside of his native homeland.
Apr 8, 2020 · Learn about the life and work of Juraj Herz, a filmmaker who survived the concentration camp and made surreal and political horror films. Explore his influential movies like The Cremator, Morgiana, Beauty and the Beast, and The Night Overtake Me.
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.
- Jonathan Owen
- 2018
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.
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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 Georges Simenon.
