Marie Poledňáková

Marie Poledňáková (née Jandová, 7 September 1941) is a Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and media entrepreneur. She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1970.[1]

Marie Poledňáková
Marie Poledňáková at the press conference for Líbáš jako ďábel (2012)
Born (1941-09-07) 7 September 1941
Strakonice, Czechoslovakia
Occupation
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • media entrepreneur
Years active1973–present
Known forI Enjoy the World with You
Notable work

Biography

Poledňáková was born in Strakonice, the daughter of a university professor. After graduating from high school, she wanted to study chemistry, but this was not allowed to her: some members of her family had emigrated from the then-communist country and this was considered a serious offense which affected the rest of the family. Thus, instead of going to college, she went to work in a cookware factory.

Poledňáková married Ivan Poledňák, a musicologist, and they had one son, Petr Poledňák. The pair divorced when Petr was eight.

In 1961, dramaturge Jaroslav Dietl offered Poledňáková the position of assistant director at Czechoslovak Television. She worked in that capacity for 10 years while also taking evening classes at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She went on to work as a screenwriter and director at the studio after graduating from the academy. In 1982, she took a position with Barrandov Studios, where she worked for six years as director. In 1990, Poledňáková co-founded the joint-stock company FTV Premiera (now Prima televize), which received the first license for private television broadcasting in the Czech Republic. After she sold her share in 1994, she became involved in the Premiéra Studio publishing house.

In 2016, Poledňáková suffered a non-fatal stroke.[2]

Filmography

References
  1. "Marie Poledňáková". Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (in Czech). POMO Media Group. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  2. "Někteří jsou na tom hůř než já, říká Marie Poledňáková po mrtvici" [Some are worse off than me, says Marie Poledňáková after a stroke]. idnes.cz (in Czech). 15 December 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  3. "Rozhovor s Marií Poledňákovou k filmu Líbáš jako ďábel" [Interview with Marie Poledňáková for the film You Kiss Like a Devil]. filmcz.info (in Czech). 10 May 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
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