Jiří Krejčík

Jiří Krejčík was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Prague, he began his film career as an extra for Barrandov Studios, during World War II. He then began creating short films and commercials. His first directorial feature film was 1947's A Week in the Quiet House, in which he wrote the screenplay based on the short stories of Jan Neruda. In 1948, he directed Border Village about a coal-mining village on the Czech border after World War II. He also wrote and directed different segments of the 1959 film Of Things Supernatural, which won him Special Mention at the Locarno International Film Festival.