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Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.
Juraj Herz was born on 4 September 1934 in Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a director and actor, known for Habermann (2010), The Cremator (1969) and Beauty and the Beast (1978). He was married to Therese Herz. He died on 8 April 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]
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- Prague, Czech Republic
Apr 8, 2020 · Juraj Herz’s diverse repertoire is evidence that great horror cinema has endless experimental routes at its behest.
Juraj Herz, one of the most unique voices to come out of the Czech New Wave, has sadly died at the age of 83. He left an important legacy to Czechoslovakian cinema, much of which is still under-explored outside of his native homeland.
Apr 18, 2018 · Before we lost Milos Forman and Vittorio Taviani over the weekend, the Slovak Spectator reported that Juraj Herz, the Czech actor and director best known for his 1968 film The Cremator, had passed away at the age of eighty-three.
The singular career of the prolific director and occasional actor Juraj Herz, a master of the offbeat and the macabre, is without parallel in the context of the cinema emerging from Czechoslovakia starting in the mid-1960s.
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May 12, 2007 · Having grown up in East Central Europe and experienced the Holocaust first-hand, Juraj Herz no doubt became painfully familiar with the Nazi’s propagandistic techniques. It is clearly no accident that The Cremator reflects the Nazi’s idea that disease – i.e., the impure Jews – is the greatest threat to Karl’s well-being.
