Detalji predmeta

• Stanje Polovno

Аутор - особа Hedbávný, Zdeněk
Наслов Alfréd Radok : zpráva o jednom osudu / Zdeněk Hedbávný
Врста грађе књига
Језик чешки
Година 1994
Издавање и производња Praha : Národni divadlo : Divadelní ústav, 1994
Физички опис 401 str. : ilustr. ; 22 cm
ISBN 80-7008-043-4
Напомене Napomene uz poglavlja
Registar.
Предметне одреднице Радок, Алфред, 1914-1976
Alfréd Radok
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search
Alfréd Radok
Alfred Radok photo.jpg
Born 17 December 1914
Koloděje nad Lužnicí, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
Died 22 April 1976 (aged 61)
Vienna, Austria
Occupation Film director, stage director actor, screenwriter
Years active 1938–1976
Alfréd Radok (17 December 1914 in – 22 April 1976) was a distinguished Czech stage director and film director.[1] Radok's work belongs with the top Czech stage direction of the 20th century. He is often cited as a formalist in his work.


Contents
1 Biography
2 Personal life
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links
Biography
Radok was born in Koloděje nad Lužnicí. His father Viktor Radok was Jewish and his mother Olga, née Toushková, was catholic.[2] He got baptized just before the World War II started in 1939. Radok planned to study journalism and theatre in Prague, but after German occupation all universities were closed down by the Nazis.[2] He then started his own amateur theatre company called Mladá scéna with his brother Emil in Valašské Meziříčí.[2] In 1940 Radok was hired by the theatre of E. F. Burian, D34, in Prague and worked there until Burian's arrest in 1941, when the theatre was closed.[2] Alfréd then continued in other theatres as an assistant director but was forced to leave because of his Jewish heritage. In 1944 he was sent to Klettendorf labour camp.[2] After an allied air raid in January 1945 he managed to escape and returned to Czechoslovakia.[2] His father and every relative on his father's side of the family were murdered in the Holocaust.[2]

In 1948 he directed a film Distant Journey about the Holocaust. In Czechoslovakia Otakar Vávra and other communist executives in the state controlled film industry were critical of the movie. As a result it only received a limited release in provincial cinemas, however internationally the film achieved critical success. The New York Times selected it to be among top 10 movies of 1950. Radok worked as a guest director at National Theatre in Prague in the years 1948 to 1949.[3] He directed a musical comedy film Divotvorný klobouk in 1953 and a historical comedy about automobilism Vintage Car in 1956. In the same year he was hired by the National Theatre.

For the Czechoslovak pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels Radok co-created the multimedia theatre show Laterna Magika, which combined live actors with projections on multiple irregularly shaped projection screens. His collaborators were scenographer Josef Svoboda, screenwriter Miloš Forman and directors Emil Radok, Vladimír Svitáček and Ján Roháč. Laterna Magika was a huge success at the Expo and the permanent scene was created at The New Stage of the National Theatre in Prague in 1959. However next year Radok was fired from the theatre for political reasons. After that he worked at Městská divadla pražská until 1966, when he was allowed to direct at the National Theatre again. When Czechoslovkia was invaded in 1968 by Warsaw Pact armies he decided to leave to Sweden with his family. He directed plays at Folkteatern in Gothenburg until 1972.[2] In 1976 he was invited to direct Václav Havel's play in Burgtheater, Vienna, but after arriving to Vienna he fell ill and died on 22 April 1976.[2]

Personal life
He was married to Marie Radoková (1922–2003). They had two children – a son David (born 1954), who is a stage director, and a daughter Barbara (born 1948). His younger brother Emil Radok (1918–1994) was also a director and Alfréd's collaborator.

Filmography
Year Title Notes
1947 Parohy
1948 Distant Journey also a screenwriter
1953 Divotvorný klobouk also a screenwriter
1956 Vintage Car
References
"Alfréd Radok". ČSFD.cz.
Antošíková, Marie (2015). Tvůrčí spolupráce Marie a Alfréda Radokových v letech 1955-1964 (PDF) (Bc.) (in Czech). Masarykova Univerzita.
"Alfréd Radok". LaternaMagika.cz. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
External links
Alfréd Radok at IMDb
Living with the Long Journey – Alfréd Radok's Daleká cesta, by Jiří Cieslar, Central Europe Review, 4 June 2001
Research about Alfred Radok's work Archived 2021-02-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Czech)
Authority control Edit this at Wikidata
General
ISNI 1VIAF 1WorldCat
National libraries
France (data)GermanyIsraelUnited StatesCzech RepublicNetherlandsPoland
Biographical dictionaries
Germany
Other
Faceted Application of Subject TerminologySUDOC (France) 1
Categories: 1914 births1976 deathsPeople from Týn nad VltavouPeople from the Kingdom of BohemiaCzech JewsCzech theatre directorsCzech film directorsCzechoslovak expatriates in AustriaRecipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue MasarykCzech exilesCzechoslovak emigrants to Sweden istorija pozorišta ćezare molinari