Jaroslav Blažek Explained

Jaroslav Blažek
Birth Date:	3 August 1896
Birth Place:	Prague, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation:	Cinematographer
Yearsactive:	1919–1943 (film)

Jaroslav Blažek (3 August 1896 – 9 August 1976) was Czech cinematographer. He worked in the Czech film industry from the silent era to the German occupation. He also shot a 1940 comedy film Then We'll Get a Divorce at the Palatino Studios in Rome.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Madame Golvery (1923)
• Battalion (1927)
• The Organist at St. Vitus' Cathedral (1929)
• The Last Man (1934)
• U nás v Kocourkově (1934)
• Na Svatém Kopečku (1934)
• Vzdušné torpédo 48 (1937)
• Hordubalové (1937)
• Then We'll Get a Divorce (1940)
• Second Tour (1940)
• The Hard Life of an Adventurer (1941)

Bibliography

• Cowie, Peter. A Concise History of the Cinema: Before 1940. A. Zwemmer, 1971. p. 156.

Notes and References

1. Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1930 al 1944. Gremese Editore, 2005. p. 113