Petr Václav

Petr Václav

Still: Il Boemo
Petr VÁCLAV (1967, Czechoslovakia) studied at the Prague Film School and from 1989 at the FEMIS in Paris. He made several documentaries, among them Cuoc Song o ubitovna, about the Vietnamese minority in his home country. His feature debut Marian (1996) won several awards, including the Silver Leopard and the FIPRESCI Award in Locarno. Many of his follow-up films have also been well received, including We Are Never Alone (2017), which won the Tagesspiegel Award at the Berlinale Film Festival.

Filmography

Tvár zizkova (1989, doc), Udel/The Deal (1990, doc), Cuoc Song o ubitovna/Cuoc Song or Dormitory (1992, short), Paní le Murie/Mademoiselle le Murie (1993, short doc), Marian (1996), Paralelní svety/Parallel Worlds (2001), The Way Out (2014), Zpoved' zapomenutého (20125, doc), We Are Never Alone (2016), Skokan (2017), Il Boemo (2022)

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