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Vladimír Michálek (born November 2, 1956 in Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech film director and screenwriter.

Life
Michálek graduated from Czech film Academy FAMU, Prague, in 1992. Starting during his academic study he was filming documentaries. He joined the Barrandov Studios as assistant director, where he worked with Andrew Birkin (Burning Secret), Reinhard Hauff, Ted Kotcheff (The Shooter), Margarethe von Trotta and Bernhard Wicky. He has four children.

Work
1994 was the year of the release of his first feature film, Amerika, a free adaptation of the Kafka novel. In 1996 Forgotten Light followed, a film adaption of the Jakub Deml novel. The film ran on the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, as did this next movie, Sekal Has to Die, two years later. The latter won ten Czech Lion awards, including Best Direction, and succeeded Forgotten Light as the Czech Oscar-nominee. As with America, he wrote the screenplay for his film Angel Exit 2000. The film won the 2002 Daring Digital Award on the Jeonju International Film Festival.

Autumn Spring (2001), starring Vlastimil Brodský in his last role, received favorable reviews, including in The New York Times and The Washington Post. It won a number of prizes, such as the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2003 The Comedy Festival, as well as the Audience Awards of each the 2002 Cleveland International Film Festival, the 2002 St. Louis International Film Festival and the 2003 Sedona Film Festival.

He is also working for TV productions such as the 2003 series Záchranári. He directed the music videos for the song Černí andělé (Black Angels) by the band Lucie, and Chinaski's Podléhám. wiki

Director (16 credits)
2017 Gen: Galerie elity národa (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
2016 Prazdniny v Provence
2015 Mamon (TV Series) (6 episodes)
2014 Pohádkár
2012 Posel
2011 EM a ON (Documentary)
2008 O rodicích a detech
2005 Záchranári (TV Series) (6 episodes)
2004 Lovec a datel (TV Movie)
2001 Babí léto
2000 Andel Exit
1999 Praha ocima (segment "The Cards Are Dealt...")
1999 Jistota (TV Movie)
1998 Je treba zabít Sekala
1996 Zapomenuté svetlo
1994 Amerika
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Enlaces completados:
OK Je treba zabít Sekala (Vladimír Michállek, 1998)