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So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

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Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

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Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

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When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

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You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

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Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

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When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

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Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.'

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Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

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I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Director

Born: February 18th, 1932

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