Radúz Činčera Explained

Radúz Činčera
Birth Date:17 June 1923
Birth Place:Brno, Czechoslovakia
Occupation:film director and screenwriter
Years Active:1954-1998
Children:4

Radúz Činčera (17 June 1923, Brno – 28 January 1999, Prague) was a Czech screenwriter and director, the conceiver of the legendary Kinoautomat.

Career

Most of his life he worked in the Krátký film Praha (The Short Film of Prague) movie studio where he was author and director of a series of short documentary films.
Nevertheless, his most famous work is the Kinoautomat, the world's first interactive movie, for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal.

Another big project of Radúz Činčera was The Sound Game Show at the Man and His World exhibition in Montreal in 1971. He also astonished the global audience with his audio-visual projects in Kobe, Japan and in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In the second half of the 1980s his multimedia music inscenation of the rock opera The Scroll was extremely successful in Canada.

Like some other Czech artists, Radúz Činčera's artistic and public work was restricted after the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1968.[1]

Filmography

Year Title Footage Notes
1954 Kvety Tatier short dramaturgic cooperation
1956Prečo kvitnú short director
1964Romeo a Julie 63 middle director
1966Mlha (Documentary on Prague Divadlo Na zábradlí) short theme, screenplay, commentary
1966Kinoautomat Člověk a jeho dům full-length theme
1966Jak Sammy o kalhotky přišel short director
1968 Stroskotáme zajtra short commentary
1969Documentary on the last moments of the comic duo Clow and Hamm, made to the 41. anniversary of the first sound film short director
1980O dětech a slovech short director
1994Hudební laboratoř TV series director

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Radúz Činčera .