FILM DIRECTOR

Karel Kachyňa

1924 - 2004

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Karel Kachyňa (1 May 1924 – 12 March 2004) was a Czech film director and screenwriter. His career spanned over five decades. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Kachyňa is the 974th most popular film director (down from 915th in 2019), the 595th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 542nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Karel Kachyňa ranks 974 out of 2,041Before him are Jørgen Leth, Giuseppe Amato, Kad Merad, Pasqualino De Santis, Gregg Toland, and Raymond Bernard. After him are Carlo Di Palma, Joe May, Marlen Khutsiev, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, András Kovács, and Louis Daquin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Karel Kachyňa ranks 329Before him are Pablo Birger, David Cox, Frank Havens, Roger Marche, Sonny Stitt, and Paruyr Sevak. After him are Robert Bolt, Bobo Brazil, Freddie Bartholomew, John Love, Abdulah Gegić, and Rudy Van Gelder. Among people deceased in 2004, Karel Kachyňa ranks 209Before him are Neil Campbell, Eugenio Garin, Barney Kessel, Klara Rumyanova, Fernando Poe Jr., and Mikhail Voronin. After him are Carlo Di Palma, Oscar Heisserer, Paul Sweezy, Pat Roach, Jacques Noël, and Alan Bullock.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Kachyňa ranks 595 out of 1,200Before him are Jiří Paroubek (1952), Ladislav Klíma (1878), Edmund Reitter (1845), Egon Bondy (1930), Milan Máčala (1943), and Petr Nečas (1964). After him are Jakub Jan Ryba (1765), Alfred Roller (1864), Ivan Olbracht (1882), Jaroslav Holík (1942), John Neumann (1811), and Eliška Krásnohorská (1847).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Karel Kachyňa ranks 23Before him are Vojtěch Jasný (1925), František Vláčil (1924), Harun Farocki (1944), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), Gustav Machatý (1901), and Oldřich Lipský (1924). After him are Martin Frič (1902), Břetislav Pojar (1923), Jiří Weiss (1913), Jan Svěrák (1965), and Jan Hřebejk (1967).