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name: "František Vláčil"
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imdb_id: "nm0900712"
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wikidata_id: "Q706451"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "19 February 1924"
died: "27 January 1999"
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:35:33.719326+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# František Vláčil

## Identity

František Vláčil

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frantisek-vlacil
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frantisek-vlacil
- **IMDb ID:** nm0900712
- **TMDB ID:** 226662
- **Wikidata ID:** Q706451
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Vl%C3%A1%C4%8Dil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706451, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0900712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/226662

Director. Born 19 February 1924 in Cesky Tesin, Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic. Died 27 January 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 19 February 1924, Cesky Tesin, Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic
- **Died:** 27 January 1999
- **Also known as:** Frantisek Vlácil, Frantisek Vlacil, František Jan Vláčil, Франтишек Влачил, 프란티셰크 블라칠, 프란티스케 블라칠, 프란티세크 블라칠
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Vl%C3%A1%C4%8Dil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706451, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0900712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/226662

## Biography

František Vláčil was a Czech film director, screenwriter, painter and graphic artist. He studied aesthetics and art history at Masaryk University in Brno between 1945 and 1950, and began working in animation and documentary films before moving to feature films.

He is best known for the medieval epic *Marketa Lazarová* (1967), on which he served as director, co-writer and story contributor, and the related historical drama *The Valley of the Bees* (1968). Both films are widely regarded as major works of Czech cinema. Vláčil received the Czech Lion award for lifetime contribution to Czech film and other festival honours for his body of work.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, cs.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Marketa Lazarová* (1967), Fi1m 84, Director, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/marketa-lazarova.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pražský Odysseus* (1991), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Rakovina vůle* (1989), as (uncredited)
- *Magician* (1988), Director
- *Shades of Fern* (1986), Director, Screenplay
- *My Sweet Little Village* (1985), as děda František Ticháček
- *Albert* (1985), Director
- *The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley* (1984), Director
- *The Snowdrop Festival* (1984), Actor
- *Serpent's Poison* (1982), Director, Screenplay
- *Concert at the End of Summer* (1980), Director, Screenplay
- *Shadows of a Hot Summer* (1978), Director
- *Smoke on the Potato Fields* (1977), Director, Screenplay
- *Sirius* (1975), Director
- *Karlovy Vary Promenades* (1974), Director, Writer
- *Art Nouveau's Prague* (1974), Director, Screenplay
- *The Legend of the Silver Fir* (1973), Screenplay, Director, Story
- *A City in White* (1972), Writer, Director
- *Adelheid* (1970), Director, Screenplay
- *The Valley of the Bees* (1968), Director, Screenplay
- *Marketa Lazarová* (1967), Director, Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/marketa-lazarova.md)
- *Spanilá jízda* (1963), Actor
- *The Devil's Trap* (1962), Director
- *The White Dove* (1960), Director, Screenplay
- *No Entrance* (1960), Screenstory, Screenplay, Director
- *Pět z milionu* (1959), Actor
- *Clouds of Glass* (1958), Story, Director, Screenplay
- *Garrison in the Peak* (1956), Screenplay, Director
- *Letter from front* (1956), Director, Writer
- *Tank Brigade* (1955), as Art Direction
- *Modrý den* (1954), Screenplay, Story
- *Remembrance* (1954), Director, Screenplay
- *Létání bez vidu podle systému OSP* (1953), Screenplay, Director
- *Nový průmysl* (1952), Screenplay, Story
- *Thermal Revolution* (1951), Director
- *Electrical Injuries in Industry* (1951), Director
- *Cure N. 2357* (1950), Director
- *Electricity Management* (1950), Director, Screenplay, Story

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Národní umělec 1988: Národní umělec (won)
- Crystal Globe 1978: Crystal Globe (won), for *Shadows of a Hot Summer*
- Merited Artist of Czechoslovakia 1968: Merited Artist of Czechoslovakia (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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