After having been one of the most successful film directors in Europe in the 1960s, Vojtěch Jasný (*1925), lives now forgotten by many in a small apartment in New York. His life and filmmaking are inseparable and in Life and Film Jasný himself, from his home in New York and through the visits to his old friends, will recount his own story, from the Nazi invasion in Czechoslovakia to the Soviet invasion, subsequent exile and his arrival in New York years later. In filmmaking he lived success and got to live and work with the most internationally important filmmakers, musicians and writers of the time. Even if his constant refusal to make social and political compromises obliged him to exile and made him suffer three KGB attacks against his life, he always remained faithful to his beliefs, even if that took him to oblivion. “I never went for money, I always went for friends and for what I think is fair and truthful,” says Jasný, who still, at his age, keeps making films: “film is my message and I will do it until I die, when my job is done, my time to go will arrive.”

Writer / Arkaitz Basterra    DoP / Arkaitz Basterra    Editor / Javi Prieto    Sound / Inaki Alonso

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