Hynek Bočan

Biography

Hynek Bočan (Born 29 April 1938) is a Czech film director and screenwriter. He started his studies at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague when he was 18 years old. He started as an assistant director on movies Ninety Degrees in the Shade, Diamonds of the Night or Ikarie XB-1. His first movie was an adaptation of Milan Kundera's story Nobody Gets the Last Laugh in 1965. His movie Pasťák (1968) was banned and only released in 1990.

Directed

1. Give the Devil His Due (1985) — Director
2. Láska rohatá (2009) — Director
3. Chief, It's Amazing (1982) — Director
4. The Man from London (1974) — Director
5. Honor and Glory (1969) — Director
6. Our Gang (1977) — Director
7. Nobody Will Laugh (1966) — Director
8. Záhada hlavolamu (1969) — Director
9. The Borstal (1990) — Director
10. Dívka světových parametrů (1980) — Director
11. My Companions in the Bleak House (1992) — Director
12. Zdivočelá země (1997) — Director
13. Bridal Tour to Jilji (1984) — Director
14. Half a House Without a Groom (1981) — Director
15. Pytláci (1982) — Director
16. O zapomnětlivém černokněžníkovi (1991) — Director
17. Chief, Come Back! (1985) — Director
18. Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech (2003) — Director
19. Slavné historky zbojnické (1986) — Director
20. Smích se lepí na paty (1987) — Director
21. Piknik (2014) — Director
22. Zvláštní případ (1971) — Director
23. Vinobraní (1982) — Director
24. Řemen (1978) — Director
25. Plavení hříbat (1976) — Director
26. Boomerang (1997) — Director
27. Windstorm (1967) — Director
28. Lustr (1979) — Director
29. Chief, Let's Go! (1985) — Director
30. Chief, There Is a Horse in the Backyard (1990) — Director
31. V tomhle zámku straší, šéfe! (1990) — Director
32. This Is How Love Begins... (1975) — Director
33. Když se slunci nedaří (1995) — Director
34. O zvířatech a lidech (1994) — Director
35. Bakaláři (1972) — Director
36. Žabák (2003) — Director
37. Tvář za sklem (1979) — Director
38. Nenechte se rušit (1981) — Director
39. The Dynamite Watcher (1963) — Director
40. Klauni a vlastenci (1991) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Olověný chléb (1954)
2. Kouzelný kopec (2023) — Self
3. An Occasion to Speak (1966) — Self
4. Golden Sixties (2009) — Self