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Jiří Brožek

Jiří Brožek

Editing

Biography

Jiří Brožek is a Czech film editor born in 1947 in Roudnice nad Labem. In 1973 he graduated in editing from FAMU in Prague. After school he joined the Barrandov Film Studio, where he worked until 1991. Editor Jiřina Lukešová recommended him to directors Jiří Menzel and Jaroslav Papoušek, with whom he made his first independent film Finally We Understand Each Other (1976). Brožek edited more than 100 feature films, dozens of television productions and a number of television series during his career. He worked with Ladislav Smoljak, Karel Kachyňa, Jiří Menzel and Věra Chytilová. He won the Czech film award Czech Lion nine times and the Slovak film award Sun in the Net twice.

Known For

The Physician of a Dying Time
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Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak Television Bratislava, directed by Slovak director Miroslav Luther in the first half of 80's in Barrandov Studios in Prague. The story and screenplay of the series wrote Czech writer Vladimír Körner. Five-episodes epic historical narration is a biographical story of distinguished Renaissance scholar, anatomist and politic of Slovak origin, Johannes Jessenius (Ján Jesenský, 1566–1621). It displays his life from the first studies and successes. In 1594 he became professor of surgery and anatomy on Wittenberg University, which he had attended years before. From that moment, his life went through social and personal wins and losses, to the sad end on the Prague Old Town Square gallows, among 27 noblemen, knights and burgenses, after lose Bohemian Revolt in 1621. His destiny was coupled with key events of Czech history in the break of 16th and 17th century, when Renaissance and European humanism slowly fade out.

The Physician of a Dying Time

1984Series