Czech film director Jiri Menzel, whose 1966 movie Closely Watched Trains won the Academy Award for best foreign language film, has died aged 82.
Menzel’s wife, Olga, announced his death late on Sunday. No details were given. “Dearest Jirka, I thank you for each and every day I could spend with you.
Each was extraordinary,” his wife said on Facebook. Menzel made some 20 movies and was one of the leading film-makers of the new wave of Czechoslovak cinema that appeared in the 1960s.
His movies represented a radical departure from socialist realism, a typical communist-era genre focusing on realistically depicting the struggles of the working class.
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