Jan Zázvorka

Jan Zázvorka
Born	(1914-05-02)2 May 1914 Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died	14 January 1991(1991-01-14) (aged 76) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1936–1986 (film)

Jan Zázvorka (2 May 1914 – 14 January 1991) was a Czech architect and art director.[1][2][3] He designed the film sets for more than a hundred productions in a career that spanned many decades. As an architect he worked on the National Monument at Vítkov and Praha-Smíchov railway station.

Selected filmography

• Blackmailer (1937)
• Arthur and Leontine (1940)
• Ladies in Waiting (1940)
• The Dancer (1943)
• Fourteen at the Table (1943)
• The Avalanche (1946)
• Nobody Knows Anything (1947)

References

1. Cowie, Peter & Elley, Derek. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. p. 81
2. Czech Feature Film II: 1930-1945. Národní filmový archiv, 1995. p. 101
3. Soister, John T. & Nicolella, Henry. Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950. McFarland, 2016. p. 213

External links

• Jan Zázvorka at IMDb