---
name: "Jiří Šust"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jiri-sust"
fi1m_id: "jiri-sust"
imdb_id: "nm0839956"
tmdb_id: 11724
wikidata_id: "Q12025685"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "28 August 1919"
died: "30 April 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T16:28:40.568196+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."
---

# Jiří Šust

## Identity

Jiří Šust

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jiri-sust
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jiri-sust
- **IMDb ID:** nm0839956
- **TMDB ID:** 11724
- **Wikidata ID:** Q12025685
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12025685, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11724

Composer. Born 28 August 1919 in Prague. Died 30 April 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 28 August 1919, Prague
- **Died:** 30 April 1995
- **Also known as:** И. Щуст
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12025685, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11724

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Daisies*](https://film.one/film/daisies.md) (85)

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## Biography

Jiří Šust was a Czech composer of film music. Born in Prague in 1919, he studied piano and composition in Moscow and at the Prague State Conservatory. He began composing for short films and advertisements in the 1940s and went on to score more than eighty feature films as well as numerous television productions and shorts.

Šust is best known for his scores for *Daisies* (1966) and *Closely Watched Trains* (1966). He maintained a long collaboration with director Jiří Menzel, composing music for eleven of his films over nearly thirty years, including *Larks on a String* (1969), *Secluded, Near Woods* (1976), *Cutting It Short* (1981) and *My Sweet Little Village* (1985). He also worked with Věra Chytilová and others in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Šust died in Prague in 1995.

*Sources: letterboxd.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, espanol.radio.cz, csfd.cz.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Closely Watched Trains* (1966), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/closely-watched-trains.md)
- *Daisies* (1966), Fi1m 85, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/daisies.md)

## Complete filmography (145)

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

- *Divoké pivo* (1995), Music Arranger
- *The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Hrad z písku* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Hudba Jiří Šust* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Horror Story* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Kam panenky...* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Odkaz z Prémontré* (1992), Music Arranger
- *Vracenky* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Klauni a vlastenci* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Pražský Odysseus* (1991), Music Arranger
- *Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu* (1990), Music
- *The End of Old Times* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Squandered Sunday* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *TGM the Liberator* (1990), Music Arranger
- *Larks on a String* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Piloti* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Faithfulness We Pledge* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Návštěvní hodiny* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Zelená léta* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *My Sweet Little Village* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Samorost* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *The Snowdrop Festival* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Opus pro smrtihlava* (1984), Music Arranger
- *Dialog s doprovodem děl* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Proč se vraždí starší dámy* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Panelstory or Birth of a Community* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Had z ráje* (1981), series, Original Music Composer
- *Hodina života* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Cutting It Short* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Smrt a Blažená paní* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Jak se naučit švédsky* (1979), Music
- *Those Wonderful Movie Cranks* (1979), Original Music Composer, Lyricist
- *Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Silvestr svobodného pána* (1979), Music
- *Time is inexorable* (1978), Music Arranger
- *Jak se zranit ve službě* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Zlaté rybky* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Parádní číslo* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Ženitba* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Vánoce u Matěnů* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Boty plné vody* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Secluded, Near Woods* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Recepty doktora Kudrny* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Vilém Rozkoč* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Mys Dobré naděje* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Rodič* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Pražský chodec* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Zbraně pro Prahu* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *Konfrontace* (1975), Music Director
- *Kukačky* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Nová metoda malíře Smithe* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Maturita za školou* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Byli jednou dva písaři...* (1973), series, Original Music Composer
- *Vražda před večeří* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Cesty mužů* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Bakaláři* (1972), series, Original Music Composer
- *Klíč pod rohožkou* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Slůně* (1972), Music Consultant
- *Medvěd pro hosta* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Svědectví mrtvých očí* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Takže ahoj* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Z lékárníkova deníku* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Comrades* (1971), Music
- *Almara* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Bližní na tapetě* (1970), series, Original Music Composer
- *Člověk neumírá žízní* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Záhada hlavolamu* (1969), series, Original Music Composer
- *Houslista* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Křepelky* (1969), Sound
- *Ve vlaku* (1969), Music Arranger
- *Ještě špetku tymiánu* (1969), Music
- *Lanfieri Colony* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Capricious Summer* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Don Juan 68* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Rána pod pás* (1968), Music Arranger
- *Windstorm* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *The Girl with Three Camels* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Daisies* (1966), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/daisies.md)
- *Closely Watched Trains* (1966), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/closely-watched-trains.md)
- *Dva tygři* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Slečny přijdou později* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Floods* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Crime at the Girls School* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Pearls of the Deep* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Dívka* (1966), Sound
- *Případ Daniela* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Strakatí andělé* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Kůzlátka otevřete...* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Praha ze soboty na neděli* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Dobrá rada je nad zlato* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Náboj* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Fortress on the Rhine* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Tereza* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Lidé jako ty* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Obyčejný příběh* (1960), Music
- *Jak se chovati?* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Křižovatky* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Of Things Supernatural* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Morálka paní Dulské* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Kasaři* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Váhavý střelec* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Zlatý pavouk* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Sons of the Mountains* (1956), Music Director
- *Crooked Mirror* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Tank Brigade* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Pozdrav veliké země* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Frona* (1954), Original Music Composer, Music
- *Vzhůru sportovci* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Olověný chléb* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Setkání v Bukurešti* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Rozloučení s Klementem Gottwaldem* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Let's protect the common property* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Remembrance* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Nad námi svítá* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Kidnapped* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *They Shall Not Pass* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *V zájmu lidu* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Jsme připravení* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Vítězný pochod* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Victorious Wings* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Přehlídka* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Motory – naše chlouba* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Alexandrovci u nás* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Společně – bez mezí* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Beloved Guests* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Women in Agricultiral Cooperatives* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Racek Is Late* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Dělnický dopisovatel* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Rok stranického učení* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Conscience* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Zavazujeme se* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Valley of Peace and Health* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Ves v pohraničí* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *One, a Thousand, a Million* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Život a čísla* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Nevíte o bytě?* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *A Week in the Quiet House* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *A Dead Man among the Living* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Cukr* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *A Christmas Dream* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Tři knoflíky* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Všední událost* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Nejvýnosnější prodej* (1942), Original Music Composer

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