Radúz Činčera | |
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![]() Dr. Radúz Činčera | |
Born | |
Died | 28 January 1999 (aged 75) |
Occupation(s) | film director and screenwriter |
Years active | 1954-1998 |
Children | 4 |
Radúz Činčera (17 June 1923, Brno – 28 January 1999, Prague) was a Czech screenwriter and director, the conceiver of the legendary Kinoautomat.
Most of his life he worked in the Krátký film Praha (The Short Film of Prague)
movie studio where he was author and director of a series of short documentary
films.
Nevertheless, his most famous work is the
Kinoautomat, the world's first
interactive movie,
[1]
[2] for the
Czechoslovak Pavilion at
Expo '67 in
Montreal.
[3]
Another big project of Radúz Činčera was The Sound Game Show at the Man and His World exhibition in Montreal in 1971. He also astonished the global
audience with his
audio-visual projects in
Kobe, Japan and in
Vancouver, British Columbia.
In the second half of the 1980s his
multimedia music inscenation of the
rock
opera The Scroll was extremely successful in Canada.
Like some other Czech artists, Radúz Činčera's artistic and public work was restricted after the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1968. [4]
Year | Title | Footage | Notes |
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1954 | Kvety Tatier | short | dramaturgic cooperation |
1956 | Prečo kvitnú | short | director |
1964 | Romeo a Julie 63 | middle | director |
1966 | Mlha (Documentary on Prague Divadlo Na zábradlí) | short | theme, screenplay, commentary |
1966 | Kinoautomat Člověk a jeho dům | full-length | theme |
1966 | Jak Sammy o kalhotky přišel | short | director |
1968 | Stroskotáme zajtra | short | commentary |
1969 | Documentary on the last moments of the comic duo Clow and Hamm, made to the 41. anniversary of the first sound film | short | director |
1980 | O dětech a slovech | short | director |
1994 | Hudební laboratoř | TV series | director |