Juraj Herz

Juraj Herz

Georg Herz

Born September 4, 1934· Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]

† Died April 8, 2018

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Born in the Slovak town of Kežmarok to a Jewish family and surviving the Ravensbrück camp, he pursued photography at Bratislava’s University of Applied Arts before studying directing and puppetry at Prague’s DAMU, later joining the Semafor Theatre and Barrandov Studios. Though initially outside the core of the Czechoslovak New Wave, he gained recognition with the 1969 horror-black comedy The Crema…

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Features 33

Short films 2

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