Jiří Menzel

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Jiří Menzel was an Oscar-winning Czech film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his gentle, humanistic comedies and key contributions to the Czechoslovak New Wave.

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Label Occurrences
Jiří Menzel canonical 4

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Czech New Wave filmmaker
film director
human
screenwriter
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED
Czech Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement NERFINISHED
Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) NERFINISHED
Order of Arts and Letters NERFINISHED
basedOn works of Bohumil Hrabal
countryOfCitizenship Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
dateOfBirth 1938-02-23
dateOfDeath 2020-09-05
directed Capricious Summer NERFINISHED
Closely Watched Trains NERFINISHED
Cutting It Short NERFINISHED
I Served the King of England NERFINISHED
Larks on a String NERFINISHED
My Sweet Little Village NERFINISHED
educatedAt Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague NERFINISHED
familyName Menzel NERFINISHED
genre comedy film
drama film
givenName Jiří NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName Czech
movement Czechoslovak New Wave NERFINISHED
name Jiří Menzel NERFINISHED
notableFor gentle humanistic comedies
key contributions to the Czechoslovak New Wave
notableWork Capricious Summer NERFINISHED
Closely Watched Trains NERFINISHED
Cutting It Short NERFINISHED
I Served the King of England NERFINISHED
Larks on a String NERFINISHED
My Sweet Little Village NERFINISHED
occupation actor
film director
screenwriter
placeOfBirth Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED
Prague NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Czech Republic NERFINISHED
Prague NERFINISHED
residence Prague NERFINISHED
spouse Olga Menzelová NERFINISHED
style humanistic
poetic realism

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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Jiří Menzel
Description of subject: Jiří Menzel was an Oscar-winning Czech film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his gentle, humanistic comedies and key contributions to the Czechoslovak New Wave.

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