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Hynek Bočan (Born 29 April 1938) is a Czech film director and screenwriter. He started his studies at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague when he was 18 years old.

Hynek Bočan
Born	(1938-04-29) 29 April 1938 (age 84) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter

He started as an assistant director on movies Ninety Degrees in the Shade, Diamonds of the Night or Ikarie XB-1. His first movie was an adaptation of Milan Kundera's story Nobody Gets the Last Laugh in 1965. His movie Pasťák (1968) was banned and only released in 1990 [1][2]

Selected filmography

• Hatered (1960) - short film
• Nobody Gets the Last Laugh (1965) - Won Grand Prix at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
• Honour and Glory (1967)
• Private Gale (1967) - Won Passinetti prize at Venice Film Festival
• The Borstal (1968) - Released in 1990
• Záhada hlavolamu (1969) TV series
• Svatební cesta do Jiljí (1983)
• Give the Devil His Due (1985)

References

External links

• Hynek Bočan at IMDb

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