Marie Poledňáková

Marie Poledňáková (1941, Strakonice) graduated from FAMU' s Dept. of Dramaturgy. She started at Czech Television as a script editor, writer and director. Her family comedies, presenting human relationships with gentle humour, won her great popularity and, in the case of her TV films, How to Pull out a Whale's Tooth (Jak vytrhnout velrybě stoličku, 1977) and How to Get Daddy into a Fix (Jak dostat tatínka do polepšovny, 1979), international awards as well. Her cinema debut, You Make the World Fun (S tebou mě baví svět, 1982) won a television survey as the most popular Czech comedy of the century. She followed up these successes with the Czech-Finnish romantic comedy Powerplay (Zkrocení zlého muže, 1986) and the family comedy Twins at the Zoo (Dva lidi v zoo, 1990). From the early 1990s she devoted herself to media enterprise and jointly founded the first private TV channel Premiéra, now TV Prima. She currently works at Czech TV as head of production. With this latest film she has returned to film direction after 16 years.

MFF Karlovy Vary