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Zdeněk Troška

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Troška at a publicity event in 2010.

Zdeněk Troška (born May 18, 1953) is a Czech film director.

He made several fairy tale films, often following patterns where a young man ventures from a rural area to find love and defeat corrupt enemies.[1] Films in this vein include Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker, The Loveliest Riddle, Princess from the Mill and its sequel.[2]

Other films he has directed are Slunce, seno, erotika (1991) and Doktor od jezera hrochů (2010).

References

  1. ^ Peter Harnes, "The Czech and Slovak Fairy-Tale Film," Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives, Routledge, 2016, p. 147.
  2. ^ Harnes, p. 151.