Dan Svátek

One of Dan Svátek's first works was the short film Owl River (1998), which won several awards at international festivals both home and abroad. Svátek came into contact with professional filmmaking while still at film school. As a directing trainee he participated on Brian de Palma's american feature film Mission: Impossible Impossible (1998). As an escort and member of the film crew, he participated in a 13-month bicycle expedition that toured every continent on bicycle. This expedition was described by Dan Svátek in a travel book entitled Around the World. After returning from the world, he worked on the film as a director. A few months later, in 2000, he filmed a short story in a triptych of three directors, The Beginning of the World. In 2002, he made his debut with his own feature film The Damned, about a young man who was caught trying to smuggle heroin out of Southeast Asia. Among other things. international film festivals, he participated in the main competition of the category "A" film festival in Moscow, where where he competed against the likes of Krzysztof Zanussi, Bob Rafelson, Kira Muratova and Alexander Rogoshkin.

In 2005, he made another English-language feature film, Close to Heaven, for for which he also wrote the screenplay and produced the film. Dan's penultimate feature film to date Svátek is You Don't Know an Hour (2009), the story of a hospital killer, which was filmed in Czech-Slovak co-production. Svátek made the TV thriller Occam's Razor (2012) for Czech Television, which was the biggest television festival in Monte Carlo (the so-called TV Oscars) and was nominated for the Golden Nymph for directing, Best Television Film and Best Actor in a Leading Role. For Czech Television, Dan Svátek also made a three-part miniseries based on a script by Josef Klíma called Reporter (2015) with Jiří Bartoška, Tomáš Töpfer and Tereza Voříšková in the lead roles, and in 2019 a two-part miniseries Stockholm Syndrome. Dan Svátek's next feature film is Smiles of Sad Men, based on the autobiographical Josef Formánek's autobiographical book, which won the Film Fan Award at the 2018 Czech Lion Awards. Dan Svátek also directed the young-adult fiction Sleeping City (2021) based on the novel by Martin Vopěnka.

His last film Her Drunken Diary has reached over 550 000 admissions in czech cinemas.

filmography

• Her Drunken Diary (2024)
• Two Words as a Key (2023)
• Sleeping City (2021)
• Stockholm Syndrome (TV, miniseries, 2020)
• Smiles of Sad Men (2018)
• Reporter (TV, miniseries, 2015)
• Occam's Razor (TV, 2012)
• You Don't Know the Hour (2008)
• Close To Heaven (2005)
• Damned (2001)