{"id":203,"date":"2024-07-09T23:27:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T21:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:17:46","slug":"pavel-juracek-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/authors\/pavel-juracek-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Jur\u00e1\u010dek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cHe was one of the most gentle and sensitive people I knew, so I cannot write more about him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 V\u00e1clav Havel<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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Pavel Jur\u00e1\u010dek (1935-1989) is best known as a screenwriter and dramatist. He was a key figure in the famous nouvelle vague in Czechoslovak film of the 1960s (the later famous director Milo\u0161 Forman was also part of this). During his study at the Prague Film School FAMU, he started collaborating with fellow students. He wrote scripts for their films, including the short film The Ceiling<\/em> by V\u011bra Chytilov\u00e1 (one of the greatest Czech film directors of the 20th century). Officially, Jur\u00e1\u010dek never finished his studiy at the FAMU, but in 1962 he did start working at the Barrandov studio, the country’s largest film studio. Until 1970 he would be active there as a screenwriter, dramaturg, but above all as head of one of the creative groups, which made possible some of the most remarkable films of the Czechoslovak nouvelle vague. Jur\u00e1\u010dek wrote screenplays for films by directors such as Karel Zeman, V\u011bra Chytilov\u00e1 and Ji\u0159\u00ed Menzel, and turned stories by Milan Kundera and Bohumil into scenarios. He worked most closely with the director Jan Schmidt, for whose films he wrote the screenplays, including Konec srpna v hotelu Oz\u00f3n<\/em> (Late August in Hotel Ozon – 1966), based on a short story by Jur\u00e1\u010dek, and Postava k podp\u00edr\u00e1n\u00ed<\/em> (Joseph Kilian – 1963), also based on an idea by Jur\u00e1\u010dek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Prague Spring ended violently in 1968, Jur\u00e1\u010dek lost his job at the Barrandov studio in the early 1970s. He was later one of the signatories of Charta 77 and was forced by the authorities to emigrate to West Germany. But even in West Germany, where he stayed for six years, he failed to work in film and returned to Czechoslovakia in the mid-1980s. He died in 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2004, his diaries Den\u00edky Pavla Jur\u00e1\u010dka z let 1959-1974<\/em> (The diaries of Pavel Jur\u00e1\u010dek from the years 1959-1974) were published. In this more than a thousand-page work, Jur\u00e1\u010dek’s incredible writing talent was revealed to the general public for the first time. The diaries were named Book of the Year 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Jur\u00e1\u010dek is rightly counted among the best filmmakers of the 1960s (retrospectives of his work regularly take place abroad), writer Milo\u0161 Fikejz made it clear as early as 2001 in his publication Pavel Jur\u00e1\u010dek. Joseph Kilian<\/em> that Jur\u00e1\u010dek was not only an outstanding filmmaker, but above all a great writer. An artist with an exceptional sense of language and the rhythm of stories. Someone for whom writing was not a matter of social standing, but a way of life. Driven by an inner need, writing was for him an essential tool for ‘reading’ the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Den\u00edky Pavla Jur\u00e1\u010dka z let 1959-1974<\/strong> (The Diaries of Pavel Jur\u00e1\u010dek)
N\u00e1rodn\u00ed filmov\u00fd archiv, Prague (2003)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prost\u0159ednictv\u00edm ko\u010dky<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/a>(By Means of the Cat)
Knihovna V\u00e1clava Havla, Prague (2014)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Situace vlka<\/strong> (The Case of the Wolf)
Knihovna V\u00e1clava Havla, Prague (2015)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postava k podp\u00edr\u00e1n\u00ed \/ groteska 1962-1963<\/strong> (Joseph Kilian)
Knihovna V\u00e1clava Havla, Prague (2016)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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