Jan Hřebejk

Jan Hřebejk is a Czech film writer and director whose first film Pelisky (Cosy Dens,1999) won two awards at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. His second film Musíme si pomáhat (Divided We Fall, 2000) was nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Foreign Language Film” and won audience awards at many festivals. His later works Horem pádem (Up and Down, 2004), Kráska v nesnázích (Beauty in Trouble, 2006), a prize-winner at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and Kawasakiho ruze (Kawasaki's Rose, 2009), which won two awards in the Berlin Film Festival, continue to illustrate the high quality of contemporary Czech cinema. After Svatá Ctverice (The Holy Quaternity, 2012), Odpad mesto smrt (Garbage, the City and Death, 2012), and Líbánky (Honeymoon, 2013), Hřebejk directed several series for Czech television. His feature film Ucitelka, premiered at the 2016 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it received the “Best actress” award for Zuzan Mauréry. In 2017 he worked on a trilogy Zahradnictví for Czech television and directed several episodes of other TV series like Rédl, Zivé terce, and Místo zlocinu Ostrava between 2018 and 2020. He directed a TV film Veterán which was broadcasted in 2020. Since then, he has directed other several TV series for the Czech television: Místo zlocinu Ostrava, Bozí mlýny, Pozadí událostí and Iveta. In 2024, he directed the film Výjimecný stav (State of Emergency) and the ongoing TV series Vecne mladi (Forever young).