Jan Schmidt
Jan Schmidt (3 January 1934 – 27 September 2019) was a Czech film director. He directed sixteen films between 1960 and 1995. His 1969 film The Lanfier Colony was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.
Jan Schmidt
- Name
- Jan Schmidt
- Born
- 3 January 1934
- Birthplace
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Died
- 27 September 2019
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic.
- Fields
- film direction and film screenwriting.
- Honours
- Masaryk University Gold Medal.
- Languages
- Czech.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Jan Schmidt (3 January 1934 – 27 September 2019) was a Czech film director. He directed sixteen films between 1960 and 1995. His 1969 film The Lanfier Colony was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Jan Schmidt. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q6149868
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Jan Schmidt • Born — 3 January 1934 • Birthplace — Prague, Czechoslovakia • Died — 27 September 2019 • Occupation — Film director • Years Active — 1960–1995
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Joseph Kilian (1963) • Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967) • The Lanfier Colony (1969) • The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes (1976) • Settlement of Crows (1978) • The Death of a Talented Cobbler (1983) • Lenin, Lord and Mother (1990) • Vracenky (1990)
Identity
Identity
Jan Schmidt is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded with the occupation screenwriter. Recorded with the occupation playwright. Recorded as playwright, screenwriter and director.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1934
Jan Schmidt was born on 3 January 1934.
2019
Jan Schmidt died on 27 September 2019.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Jan Schmidt was born in Prague.
Birthplace
Jan Schmidt died in Prague.
Deathplace
Prague.
Birth place
Jan Schmidt was born in Náchod.
Birthplace
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
37,408 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Jan PotměšilPerson
- Jan RavensPerson
- Jan RubešPerson
- Jan RybkowskiPerson
- Jan SharpPerson
- Jan SosniokPerson
- Jan SvěrákPerson
- Jan TeulingsPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Jan Schmidt?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.