People
Jana Boková
Biography:
Boková (born in 1948) is a Czech film director.
Born in Prague, she left Czechoslovakia at the time of the Soviet invasion in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne. She then lived in the United States and worked as a contributing photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, and subsequently became a film student at the National Film School in England debuting as a film director in 1975 with the critically acclaimed Militia Battlefield. She made films regularly for the BBC arts series Omnibus and Arena, winning many international awards.
She wrote and directed the 1986 drama film Hôtel du Paradis, which was... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Night Watch as Lady Cocaina | 2005-04-15 |