Jiří Svoboda

Jiří Svoboda (born 5 May 1945 in Kladno) is a Czech film and TV director, screenwriter and retired politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) from 1990 to 1993. In 2017 he received the World Prize for Humanism from the Macedonian-based Ohrid Academy of Humanism.

Career In 1996 Svoboda unsuccessfully ran for the Senate as an independent candidate for the Party of the Democratic Left. From 1999 to 2004 he was a professor of film art at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). As a journalist he also occasionally participates in historical debates about Czech history up until the Middle Ages. He holds atheist viewpoints.

Filmography Director 1974 – Motiv pro vraždu 1975 – Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu 1977 – The Blue Planet (Modrá planeta) 1980 – Dívka s mušlí 1981 – Řetěz 1982 – Schůzka se stíny 1983 – Oblouk světla – TV film 1983 – Zánik samoty Berhof 1985 – Scalpel, Please (Skalpel, prosím) 1986 – Papilio 1987 – Svět nic neví 1988 – Prokletí domu Hajnů 1990 – Jen o rodinných záležitostech 1995 – Co Hedvika neřekla – TV film 2002 – Udělení milosti se zamítá – TV film 2005 – Sametoví vrazi 2005 – Rána z milosti – TV film 2005 – Jasnovidec – TV film 2007 – Boží duha – TV film 2010 – Domina TV film 2014 – Poslední cyklista 2015 – Jan Hus 2017 – Zádušní oběť TV film