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Zdeněk Liška has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.

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Zdeněk Liška has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Liška set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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František Vláčil
Director
3 shared titles · Marketa Lazarová

Karel Zeman
Director
3 shared titles · The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Hrušínský
Actor
2 shared titles · The Cremator

Eduard Kohout
Actor
2 shared titles · The Cremator
František Pavlíček
Screenplay
2 shared titles · Marketa Lazarová

Juraj Herz
Director
2 shared titles · The Cremator

Ján Kadár
Director
2 shared titles · The Shop on Main Street

Elmar Klos
Director
2 shared titles · The Shop on Main Street
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