Jan Kališ

Jan Kališ
Born	(1930-07-07)7 July 1930 Brno, Czechoslovakia
Died	23 July 2003(2003-07-23) (aged 73)
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1952-1989

Jan Kališ (7 July 1930 – 23 July 2003) was a Czech cinematographer and pedagogue. He studied cinematography at FAMU. He worked at Studio of children films (1954 – 1955) and then at Barrandov Studios (1955-1990). He was teaching cinematography at FAMU from 1965 to 2003. He often worked with directors Zbyněk Brynych and Jindřich Polák. Since 1960s he also worked on productions for West German televisions.

Selected filmography

• Občan Brych (1953)
• Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
• The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1964)
• Případ pro začínajícího kata (1969)
• Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1969)

External links

• Jan Kališ at IMDb