Jan Zázvorka
Jan Zázvorka (2 May 1914 – 14 January 1991) was a Czech architect and art director. He designed the film sets for more than a hundred productions in a career that spanned many decades.
Jan Zázvorka
- Name
- Jan Zázvorka
- Born
- 2 May 1914
- Birthplace
- Prague, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 14 January 1991
- Place of death
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Occupation
- Art director
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Jan Zázvorka (2 May 1914 – 14 January 1991) was a Czech architect and art director. He designed the film sets for more than a hundred productions in a career that spanned many decades.
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• Name — Jan Zázvorka • Born — 2 May 1914 • Birthplace — Prague, Austria-Hungary • Died — 14 January 1991 • Place of death — Prague, Czechoslovakia • Occupation — Art director • Years Active — 1936–1986 (film)
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• Blackmailer (1937) • Arthur and Leontine (1940) • Ladies in Waiting (1940) • The Dancer (1943) • Fourteen at the Table (1943) • The Avalanche (1946) • Nobody Knows Anything (1947)
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- 1.Cowie, Peter & Elley, Derek. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. p. 81
- 2.Czech Feature Film II: 1930-1945. Národní filmový archiv, 1995. p. 101
- 3.Soister, John T. & Nicolella, Henry. Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950. McFarland, 2016. p. 213
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