Czech cinematographer and cameraman Jiří Machání (aka Jiří Macháne) died in Prague, Czech
Republic on January 20, 2023. He was 82. Born on December 27, 1940 he graduated
twenty-four years later he graduated from the university as a cinematographer.
At first he worked ifor the Czechoslovak Army Film and as an assistant
cameraman he participated in Jan Schmidt's gloomy vision “The End of August in
the Ozon Hotel” and in Kachyňa's disillusioning fresco “Long Live the Republic”.
He began his independent work as a cameraman with Schmidt's film “The Lanfieri
Colony”, shot in the Soviet Union during the August invasion of Czechoslovakia.
“His Funeral Celebration” directed by Zdeněk Sirový gave a true picture of the
village in the 1950s and 1960s but ended up in the vault, it was not performed
until 1990. Machání was the cinematographer on two Euro-westerns: “The Claim at
Deaf Creek” and “David Sandel’s Last Shot” both in 1972.
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