Person

Jana Ševčíková

Directing · Born 1953-04-22 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševcíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.

• The Rite of Spring

  Screenplay

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  Jakub

  Director

• Worldly Children

  Director

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  Lean A Ladder Against Heaven

  Writer

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  Gyumri

  Director

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  The Old Believers

  Director

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  Sweetgrass

  Thanks

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  Those Who Dance in the Dark

  Director

• Tulakóna

  Screenplay

• Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

  Self

• 2022Those Who Dance in the DarkDirector
• 2014Lean A Ladder Against HeavenWriter
• 2009SweetgrassThanks
• 2008GyumriDirector
• 2005Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner HerzogSelf
• 2002The Rite of SpringScreenplay
• 2002The Old BelieversDirector
• 1992JakubDirector
• 1986TulakónaScreenplay
• 1984PiemuleWriter
• 1981Worldly ChildrenDirector