Rudolf Adler | |
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 Adler (centre) in 2024 | |
| Born | 25 May 1941 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, pedagogue |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Spouse | Jarmila Adler Šlaisov [1] |
Rudolf Adler (born May 25, 1941, in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. [2] [3]
Rudolf Adler studied film directing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, graduating in 1966. Concomitantly Adler wrote the libretto for composer Zdeněk Pololáník's ballet Mechanismus; their collaborative work premiered at the FX Šalda Theater, Liberec, in 1964. [3]
When Czechoslovakia hosted joint Warsaw Pact military maneuvers in September 1966, Rudolf Adler, then an Army filmmaker, was sent to south South Bohemia to document war games. [4] : 168
At a time when Czechoslovakia's communist regime sought control of the arts, making it difficult if not impossible for the public to gain access to unofficial ideas and expressions, Adler, alongside colleagues Ivan Balaďa and Vladimír Drha, pushed the borders of the possible—some of their films qualify as avant-garde and/or auteur films. [5] : 157
He has directed more than 100 films. [6] Among them are Strepy pro Evu (1978), Chlapská dovolenka (1988), and the documentary Masks, Jesters, Demons (2002), in which he and cowriter Ludvík Baran examine historic, ritualistic uses of face masks in the Czech lands and throughout the world. [7] As script editor and supervising editor, he contributed to I, Olga Hepnarová , a 2016 winner of Czech Lion and Czech Film Critics' awards. [8]
Since the late 1980s Adler has taught documentary filmmaking at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), serving at different times in capacities of professor and department head. [2]
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