Jiří Marek
Appearance
Jiří Marek (Josef Jiří Puchwein) (30 May 1914, in Prague – 10 December 1994, in Prague) was a Czech writer, educator, journalist and screenwriter.[1][2] In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.[3]
Books
- Pečeť věrnosti (1944)
- Vstup do strany (1952)
- Pionýr Feďa (1953)
- Střelnice (1962)
- Blažený věk (1968)
- Můj strýc Odysseus (1974)
- Muži jdou v tmě (1946)
- Vesnice pod zemí (1949)
- Pohádky vzhůru nohama (1958)
- Autopohádky ("Car Fairy Tales") (1965)
- From The Princess Who Never Smiled in Marek's car world: "Once upon the time there lived three Kings: King of petroleum, King of gasoline, and automobile King..." His Petroleumness had a princess who never smiled. The hero of the story is Vendelín the Car Mechanic whose car had all superb equipment, "not to say about pedestrian catcher".[4]
- In 1983 a German comedy film Car Fairy Tales based on the stories was produced by Erwin Stranka [5]
- In 2004 the band Chinaski with the participation of Jiří Lábus and Lucie Bílá released a double audio CD, Autopohádky with three fairy tales, and 8 songs
- In 2011, a CD with 4 animated films was released, with three based on the original Marek's stories, the fourth being a new one. Music is by Chinaski and the narrator is Michal Malátný , the frontman of Chinaski.[5][4]
- Panoptikum starých kriminálních příběhů (1968)
- Panoptikum hříšných lidí (1971)
- Panoptikum Města pražského (1979)
- OK 096 se nehlásí (1979)
- Sůl země 1, 2 (1981)
- Psí hvězda Sirius aneb láskyplné vyprávěnky o psech (1982)
- Tristan aneb O lásce (1985)
- Čas lásky a nenávisti (1986)
Filmography
References
- ^ Jiří Marek at IMDb
- ^ Adamovič, Ivan; NNeff, Ondřej. Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Praha : R3, 1995. ISBN 80-85364-57-3. Chapter "Marek, Jiří", p. 144
- ^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Autopohádky přijíždějí"
- ^ a b "Autopohádky - příběhy, které spojuje řev i duše motorů"