Jiří Svoboda (director) explained

Jiří Svoboda
Office:Leader of the Communist Party
of Bohemia and Moravia
Term Start:13 October 1990
Term End:25 June 1993
Predecessor:Jiří Machalík
Successor:Miroslav Grebeníček
Birth Date:5 May 1945
Birth Place:Kladen, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Jiří Svoboda (born 5 May 1945 in Kladno) is a Czech film and TV director, screenwriter and retired politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) from 1990 to 1993. In 2017 he received the World Prize for Humanism from the Macedonian-based Ohrid Academy of Humanism.[1]

Career

In 1996 Svoboda unsuccessfully ran for the Senate as an independent candidate for the Party of the Democratic Left.[2] From 1999 to 2004 he was a professor of film art at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). As a journalist he also occasionally participates in historical debates about Czech history up until the Middle Ages. He holds atheist viewpoints.[3]

Filmography

Director

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jiri Svoboda Gets 2017 World Prize for Humanism . . 2017-01-05 . Independent, the Macedonian English Language News Agency . 2017-01-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170131191037/http://www.independent.mk/articles/40208/Jiri+Svoboda+Gets++World+Prize+for+Humanism . 2017-01-31 . dead .
  2. Web site: Výsledky hlasování . volby.cz . 23 February 2024.
  3. Web site: JIŘÍ SVOBODA: Václav v plné zbroji s kopím je výron národní sebeiluze . Reflex.cz . 28 September 2015. 23 February 2024 . cs.