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A 1963 graduate of his country’s film school (FAMU, or Faculty of the Academy of Dramatic Arts), the Czech Jiří Menzel spent the next two years working as an actor and assistant director. His first motion picture as a director was a contribution to an anthology film titled Pearls of the Deep (1965), based on five short stories by Bohumil Hrabal remarkable for their concentration on the destinies of little people on the edges of society.
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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). Trainspotting: Jiří Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_11
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