Radúz Činčera
Radúz Činčera (17 June 1923, Brno – 28 January 1999, Prague) was a Czech screenwriter and director, the conceiver of the legendary Kinoautomat.
Also recorded as Raduz Cincera
Radúz Činčera

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- Name
- Radúz Činčera
- Born
- 17 June 1923
- Birthplace
- Brno, Czechoslovakia
- Died
- 28 January 1999
- Occupation
- film director and screenwriter
- Nationality
- Czech Republic · Czechoslovakia
- Education
- Faculty of Arts and Charles University in Prague
- Languages
- Czech · English · German
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Radúz Činčera (17 June 1923, Brno – 28 January 1999, Prague) was a Czech screenwriter and director, the conceiver of the legendary Kinoautomat.
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Key facts
• Name — Radúz Činčera • Born — 17 June 1923 • Birthplace — Brno, Czechoslovakia • Died — 28 January 1999 • Occupation — film director and screenwriter • Years Active — 1954-1998 • Children — 4
Career
Career
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, for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. 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.
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Footage — Notes • 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
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Raduz Cincera. His recorded languages were Czech, English, German and Slovak.
Identity
Identity
Radúz Činčera is recorded as screenwriter, director, dramaturge, scenographer and comics writer.
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1997
Radúz Činčera digitised by DataCite (Unpublished).
1999
Radúz Činčera died in 1999 at Prague.
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