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.
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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