Jan Hřebejk

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1967-06-27 (57 years old)

Place of Birth Prague, Czechia

Jan Hřebejk

Biography

Jan Hřebejk (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦr̝ɛbɛjk]; born 27 June 1967) is a Czech film director and actor. Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) from 1987 to 1991, majoring in screenplay and dramaturgy. He was at FAMU alongside Petr Jarchovský, who is also his classmate from high school and subsequently a frequent collaborator as a screenwriter. While at FAMU, Hřebejk directed and produced two short films, Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít (1988) and L. P. 1948 (1989),[1] from scripts written by his classmate Petr Zelenka. His professional directorial debut was a short film for Czech TV, Nedělejte nic, pokud k tomu nemáte vážný důvod (1991), also written by Zelenka. His films caught the attention of viewers and critics, and entered student film festivals. Also while still at FAMU, Hřebejk and Jarchovský wrote a comedy screenplay inspired by Hřebejk's background at a summer camp, entitled Pejme písen dohola. This screenplay was filmed in 1990 as a full-length feature by director Ondřej Trojan. In 1992, Hřebejk filmed a version of his FAMU graduate thesis, an interpretation of Egon Hostovský's Dobrocinny vecírek. This was followed by Big Beat, a rock and roll comedy set in the 1950s and Hřebejk's first major box office success. The film was written by Jarchovský, based on a story by Petr Šabach, and won four Czech Lion awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Hřebejk. In 1996, Hřebejk directed a children's TV series, Kde padají hvezdy, which was syndicated around Europe. The following year, Hřebejk and Jarchovský won awards from the Film and Television Association and the Literary Fund for their contribution to dramatic television programming, for three episodes they wrote for the TV series Bachelors. The writing and production team behind Big Beat subsequently reunited for two further films, Cosy Dens (Czech: Pelíšky; 1999) and Divided We Fall (Czech: Musíme si pomáhat; 2000), both of which became enormously successful within the Czech Republic. His 2009 film Kawasaki's Rose was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but didn't make the final shortlist.

Known For

Director

Pád domu Kollerů

as Director

2024
State of Emergency

as Director

2023
The Winner

as Director

2022
Pozadí událostí

as Director

2021
Boží mlýny

as Director

2020
Veterán

as Director

2019
My Freedom

as Director

2019
Živé terče

as Director

2019
2018
Rédl

as Director

2017
2017
2016
The Teacher

as Director

2016
Pět mrtvých psů

as Director

2015
2015
2014
Icing

as Director

2014
Head Over Heels

as Director

2013
Honeymoon

as Director

2012
2011
Innocence

as Director

2009
Kawasaki's Rose

as Director

2008
Shameless

as Director

2008
I'm All Good

as Director

2007
Teddy Bear

as Director

2006
Beauty in Trouble

as Director

2004
Up and Down

as Director

2003
Pupendo

as Director

2000
Divided We Fall

as Director

1999
Cosy Dens

as Director

1998
Česká soda

as Director

1996
Where Stars Fall

as Director

1995
GENUS

as Director

1993
Big Beat

as Director

1993
Czech Soda

as Co-Director

Actor

2020
Na Pavláska

as Himself

2013
2010
The Greatest Czechs

as předseda grantové komise

2009
2000

Writer

2008
Shameless

as Screenplay

2004
Up and Down

as Writer

1995
GENUS

as Writer

1991

Creator

2018
Rédl

as Creator

2015