Creation | GENUS
9 Czech lives – portraits of Czech personalities.
Czech Television – Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 00 Prague 4
tel: 26 11 37 047
fax: 26 12 11 354
e-mail: telexport@czech-tv.cz
About this series:
The success of the television series GEN and the discovery that the limit of one hundred personalities was not sufficient in order to capture the status of the current potential of the Czech nation led to a loose continuation of this plan.
For this reason, Czech television began to show further portraits of contemporary people, who have broken the confines of the Czech borders with their exceptional abilities and successes in the new series – GENUS – from January 1995 made by the creative group of Josef Platz (every Sunday at around 9.45 p.m. on CT 1).
The number of personalities was again limited to 99. Because three of these concerned double-portraits of personalities whose lives could not be separated from each other (Zikmund and Hanzelka, the Válová sisters and Mr and Mrs Kocáb), the number of people portrayed in the 99 parts totals 102.
This series – in comparison to its predecessor – was no longer accompanied by intense controversy and another reason for this could be that the selection of personalities was now able to be much wider and more alternative and this type of program had already become a completely inherent part of public television. Although the creation of the private television station – NOVA – drew off some of the viewers, the series was regularly watched by an average of one million viewers.
The two series, GEN and GENUS – the most extensive documentary frescos in the history of television, which corrected historical injustice in more than one case (not only in the people they portrayed, but also by giving certain people a new chance at directing), were also important because they proved the viability of documentary films on the free screen. Further to this, it was just these two programs that provided the greatest artistic opportunities for many producers who needed to find a non-commercial artistic foothold in stormy post-revolution times.
JOSEF ŠVEJCAR
- trough eyes of FERO FENIČ
EDUARD HAKEN
- trough eyes of VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
LJUBA HERMANNOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
OLBRAM ZOUBEK
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
MARIE TOMÁŠKOVÁ - DYTRYCHOVÁ
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
GUSTAV BROM
- trough eyes of VÁCLAV KŘÍSTEK
STANISLAV BERNARD
- trough eyes of JÁN SEBECHLEBSKÝ
TOMÁŠ EDEL
- trough eyes of ZDĚNEK POTUŽIL
JIŘÍ BÁRTA
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
MIROSLAV PLZÁK
- trough eyes of PETR ZELENKA
ILJA HURNÍK
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ STŘECHA
JIŘÍ REINSBERG
- trough eyes of ANDREA MAJSTOROVIČ
DAGMAR HOCHOVÁ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
FRANTIŠEK VLÁČIL
- trough eyes of KAREL SMYCZEK
JAROSLAV FOGLAR
- trough eyes of PETR KOTEK
MILOŠ KOPECKÝ
- trough eyes of JAROMIL JIREŠ
KAREL LEWIT
- trough eyes of KAREL SMYCZEK
JIŘÍ HANZELKA a MIROSLAV ZIKMUND
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
LÍDA BAAROVÁ
- trough eyes of OTAKAR VÁVRA
JARMILA KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ
- trough eyes of MIRA ERDEVIČKY
MICHAL VIEWEGH
- trough eyes of JAN HŘEBEJK
EMIL ZÁTOPEK
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
JIŘÍ GRUŠA
- trough eyes of JOSEF PLATZ
MARTIN PENC
- trough eyes of ALENA ČINČEROVÁ
JAN KAPLICKÝ
- trough eyes of MARIE ŠANDOVÁ
JAROSLAV SVOBODA
- trough eyes of PETR RUTTNER
JAN MILIČ LOCHMAN
- trough eyes of BERNARD ŠAFAŘÍK
ZDENĚK FEJFAR
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK KOPÁČ
OTAKAR VÁVRA
- trough eyes of JITKA NĚMCOVÁ
NADY SHAKTI
- trough eyes of MARIE ŠANDOVÁ
ALEŠ LEBEDA
- trough eyes of VÍT HÁJEK
FRANTIŠEK KOŽÍK
- trough eyes of ČENĚK DUBA
JITKA a KVĚTA VÁLOVY
- trough eyes of ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ
VLASTA PRŮCHOVÁ
- trough eyes of IRENY GEROVÉ
FRANTIŠEK ŠŤASTNÝ
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ VĚRČÁK
JIŘÍ SOVÁK
- trough eyes of SIMONA OKTÁBCOVÁ
VÁCLAV CHALOUPKA
- trough eyes of VIKTOR POLESNÝ
VLASTIMIL HARAPES
- trough eyes of ANDREA MAJSTOROVIČ
OTAKAR MOTEJL
- trough eyes of VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
KAREL STEIGERWALD
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
MIROSLAV HORNÍČEK
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
MNISLAV ZELENÝ ATAPANA
- trough eyes of MARTIN ŠTOLL
BŘETISLAV POJAR
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
OTA ORNEST
- trough eyes of ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ
DAGMAR PECKOVÁ
- trough eyes of VIKTOR POLESNÝ
JIŘÍ SOPKO
- trough eyes of VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
FERDINAND KNOBLOCH
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK PODSKALSKÝ II
JIŘINA JIRÁSKOVÁ
- trough eyes of IRENA PAVLÁSKOVÁ
DAVID FLUSSER
- trough eyes of ZENO DOSTÁL
IVA JANŽUROVÁ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
ZDENĚK SEKANINA
- trough eyes of VÍT HÁJEK
LÍDA RAKUŠANOVÁ
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
KAREL LOPRAIS
- trough eyes of ALENA ČINČEROVÁ
MILOŠ KIRSCHNER
- trough eyes of MARTIN ŠTOLL
JAN J. OPPLT
- trough eyes of MARTIN VADAS
PETR TUČNÝ
- trough eyes of JÁN SEBECHLEBSKÝ
ZDENĚK VESELOVSKÝ
- trough eyes of SIMONA OKTÁBCOVÁ
IVAN STEIGER
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ DATEL NOVOTNÝ
PETR WEIGL
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK TROŠKA
FRANTIŠEK KOUKOLÍK
- trough eyes of DUŠAN TRANČÍK
JIŘÍ BĚLOHLÁVEK
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
JAN GRAUBNER
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
ADOLF BORN
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
OTTO JELINEK
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ STŘECHA
JIŘÍ LOUDA
- trough eyes of MIRA ERDEVIČKY
MILAN MACHOVEC
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
EVA PILAROVÁ
- trough eyes of ANDREA MAJSTOROVIČ
KAREL NEPRAŠ
- trough eyes of JAROSLAV BRABEC
JIŘINA ŠIKLOVÁ
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
PAVEL KÜHN
- trough eyes of JAROSLAV HOVORKA
KAREL ČÁSLAVSKÝ
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
VLADIMÍR KOPECKÝ
- trough eyes of PAVEL KOUTECKÝ
ALFRÉD a DARJA KOCÁBOVI
- trough eyes of MICHAEL KOCÁB
KAREL KACHYŇA a ALENA MIHULOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
ZDENĚK MATĚJČEK
- trough eyes of MARIE ŠANDOVÁ
JOSEF HIRŠAL
- trough eyes of IRENY GEROVÉ
JAROSLAV SKÁLA
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ DATEL NOVOTNÝ
JIŘÍ STRÁNSKÝ
- trough eyes of ODŘEJ TROJAN
IVAN VYSKOČIL
- trough eyes of MARTIN DOSTÁL
ADRIENA ŠIMOTOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAROSLAV BRABEC
JAN NEDVĚD
- trough eyes of ROMAN VÁVRA
RADOVAN LUKAVSKÝ
- trough eyes of MARTIN ŠTOLL
VLADIMÍR MIŠÍK
- trough eyes of JAN HŘEBEJK
VÁCLAV PAČES
- trough eyes of ALENA ČINČEROVÁ
DOMINIK HAŠEK
- trough eyes of JAN HŘEBEJK
JIŘÍ KOLÁŘ
- trough eyes of JURAJ JOHANIDES
ALEXANDR ČEJKA
- trough eyes of ONDŘEJ HAVELKA
ZDENĚK JOHANA
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK PODSKALSKÝ II
LUDĚK BUKAČ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
RADANA KÖNIGOVÁ
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
FRANTIŠEK ŠMAHEL
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
VLADIMÍR RENČÍN
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
JAN KAČER
- trough eyes of JANA HÁDKOVÁ
MARTIN DOKTOR
- trough eyes of JÁN SEBECHLEBSKÝ
PAVEL ŠMOK
- trough eyes of TEREZA KOPÁČOVÁ
MARTA KUBIŠOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAN NĚMEC
VĚRA ČÁSLAVSKÁ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
STELLA ZÁZVORKOVÁ
- trough eyes of FRANTIŠEK FILIP
JIŘÍ HUBAČ
- trough eyes of JAROMIL JIREŠ
Frequency:
weekly
Brodcast:
1995, 1996
Length:
14 minutes
First part:
“Josef Švejcar“ (directed by: Fero Fenič)
Last part:
“Jiří Hubač“ (directed by: Jaromil Jireš)
Copyright:
Czech Television
Total parts:
99
Contact:Czech Television – Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 00 Prague 4
tel: 26 11 37 047
fax: 26 12 11 354
e-mail: telexport@czech-tv.cz
About this series:
The success of the television series GEN and the discovery that the limit of one hundred personalities was not sufficient in order to capture the status of the current potential of the Czech nation led to a loose continuation of this plan.
For this reason, Czech television began to show further portraits of contemporary people, who have broken the confines of the Czech borders with their exceptional abilities and successes in the new series – GENUS – from January 1995 made by the creative group of Josef Platz (every Sunday at around 9.45 p.m. on CT 1).
The number of personalities was again limited to 99. Because three of these concerned double-portraits of personalities whose lives could not be separated from each other (Zikmund and Hanzelka, the Válová sisters and Mr and Mrs Kocáb), the number of people portrayed in the 99 parts totals 102.
This series – in comparison to its predecessor – was no longer accompanied by intense controversy and another reason for this could be that the selection of personalities was now able to be much wider and more alternative and this type of program had already become a completely inherent part of public television. Although the creation of the private television station – NOVA – drew off some of the viewers, the series was regularly watched by an average of one million viewers.
The two series, GEN and GENUS – the most extensive documentary frescos in the history of television, which corrected historical injustice in more than one case (not only in the people they portrayed, but also by giving certain people a new chance at directing), were also important because they proved the viability of documentary films on the free screen. Further to this, it was just these two programs that provided the greatest artistic opportunities for many producers who needed to find a non-commercial artistic foothold in stormy post-revolution times.
JOSEF ŠVEJCAR
- trough eyes of FERO FENIČ
EDUARD HAKEN
- trough eyes of VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
LJUBA HERMANNOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
OLBRAM ZOUBEK
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
MARIE TOMÁŠKOVÁ - DYTRYCHOVÁ
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
GUSTAV BROM
- trough eyes of VÁCLAV KŘÍSTEK
STANISLAV BERNARD
- trough eyes of JÁN SEBECHLEBSKÝ
TOMÁŠ EDEL
- trough eyes of ZDĚNEK POTUŽIL
JIŘÍ BÁRTA
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
MIROSLAV PLZÁK
- trough eyes of PETR ZELENKA
ILJA HURNÍK
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ STŘECHA
JIŘÍ REINSBERG
- trough eyes of ANDREA MAJSTOROVIČ
DAGMAR HOCHOVÁ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
FRANTIŠEK VLÁČIL
- trough eyes of KAREL SMYCZEK
JAROSLAV FOGLAR
- trough eyes of PETR KOTEK
MILOŠ KOPECKÝ
- trough eyes of JAROMIL JIREŠ
KAREL LEWIT
- trough eyes of KAREL SMYCZEK
JIŘÍ HANZELKA a MIROSLAV ZIKMUND
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
LÍDA BAAROVÁ
- trough eyes of OTAKAR VÁVRA
JARMILA KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ
- trough eyes of MIRA ERDEVIČKY
MICHAL VIEWEGH
- trough eyes of JAN HŘEBEJK
EMIL ZÁTOPEK
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
JIŘÍ GRUŠA
- trough eyes of JOSEF PLATZ
MARTIN PENC
- trough eyes of ALENA ČINČEROVÁ
JAN KAPLICKÝ
- trough eyes of MARIE ŠANDOVÁ
JAROSLAV SVOBODA
- trough eyes of PETR RUTTNER
JAN MILIČ LOCHMAN
- trough eyes of BERNARD ŠAFAŘÍK
ZDENĚK FEJFAR
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK KOPÁČ
OTAKAR VÁVRA
- trough eyes of JITKA NĚMCOVÁ
NADY SHAKTI
- trough eyes of MARIE ŠANDOVÁ
ALEŠ LEBEDA
- trough eyes of VÍT HÁJEK
FRANTIŠEK KOŽÍK
- trough eyes of ČENĚK DUBA
JITKA a KVĚTA VÁLOVY
- trough eyes of ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ
VLASTA PRŮCHOVÁ
- trough eyes of IRENY GEROVÉ
FRANTIŠEK ŠŤASTNÝ
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ VĚRČÁK
JIŘÍ SOVÁK
- trough eyes of SIMONA OKTÁBCOVÁ
VÁCLAV CHALOUPKA
- trough eyes of VIKTOR POLESNÝ
VLASTIMIL HARAPES
- trough eyes of ANDREA MAJSTOROVIČ
OTAKAR MOTEJL
- trough eyes of VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
KAREL STEIGERWALD
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
MIROSLAV HORNÍČEK
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
MNISLAV ZELENÝ ATAPANA
- trough eyes of MARTIN ŠTOLL
BŘETISLAV POJAR
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
OTA ORNEST
- trough eyes of ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ
DAGMAR PECKOVÁ
- trough eyes of VIKTOR POLESNÝ
JIŘÍ SOPKO
- trough eyes of VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ
FERDINAND KNOBLOCH
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK PODSKALSKÝ II
JIŘINA JIRÁSKOVÁ
- trough eyes of IRENA PAVLÁSKOVÁ
DAVID FLUSSER
- trough eyes of ZENO DOSTÁL
IVA JANŽUROVÁ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
ZDENĚK SEKANINA
- trough eyes of VÍT HÁJEK
LÍDA RAKUŠANOVÁ
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
KAREL LOPRAIS
- trough eyes of ALENA ČINČEROVÁ
MILOŠ KIRSCHNER
- trough eyes of MARTIN ŠTOLL
JAN J. OPPLT
- trough eyes of MARTIN VADAS
PETR TUČNÝ
- trough eyes of JÁN SEBECHLEBSKÝ
ZDENĚK VESELOVSKÝ
- trough eyes of SIMONA OKTÁBCOVÁ
IVAN STEIGER
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ DATEL NOVOTNÝ
PETR WEIGL
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK TROŠKA
FRANTIŠEK KOUKOLÍK
- trough eyes of DUŠAN TRANČÍK
JIŘÍ BĚLOHLÁVEK
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
JAN GRAUBNER
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
ADOLF BORN
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
OTTO JELINEK
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ STŘECHA
JIŘÍ LOUDA
- trough eyes of MIRA ERDEVIČKY
MILAN MACHOVEC
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
EVA PILAROVÁ
- trough eyes of ANDREA MAJSTOROVIČ
KAREL NEPRAŠ
- trough eyes of JAROSLAV BRABEC
JIŘINA ŠIKLOVÁ
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
PAVEL KÜHN
- trough eyes of JAROSLAV HOVORKA
KAREL ČÁSLAVSKÝ
- trough eyes of HELENA TŘEŠTÍKOVÁ
VLADIMÍR KOPECKÝ
- trough eyes of PAVEL KOUTECKÝ
ALFRÉD a DARJA KOCÁBOVI
- trough eyes of MICHAEL KOCÁB
KAREL KACHYŇA a ALENA MIHULOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
ZDENĚK MATĚJČEK
- trough eyes of MARIE ŠANDOVÁ
JOSEF HIRŠAL
- trough eyes of IRENY GEROVÉ
JAROSLAV SKÁLA
- trough eyes of JIŘÍ DATEL NOVOTNÝ
JIŘÍ STRÁNSKÝ
- trough eyes of ODŘEJ TROJAN
IVAN VYSKOČIL
- trough eyes of MARTIN DOSTÁL
ADRIENA ŠIMOTOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAROSLAV BRABEC
JAN NEDVĚD
- trough eyes of ROMAN VÁVRA
RADOVAN LUKAVSKÝ
- trough eyes of MARTIN ŠTOLL
VLADIMÍR MIŠÍK
- trough eyes of JAN HŘEBEJK
VÁCLAV PAČES
- trough eyes of ALENA ČINČEROVÁ
DOMINIK HAŠEK
- trough eyes of JAN HŘEBEJK
JIŘÍ KOLÁŘ
- trough eyes of JURAJ JOHANIDES
ALEXANDR ČEJKA
- trough eyes of ONDŘEJ HAVELKA
ZDENĚK JOHANA
- trough eyes of ZDENĚK PODSKALSKÝ II
LUDĚK BUKAČ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
RADANA KÖNIGOVÁ
- trough eyes of HANA PINKAVOVÁ
FRANTIŠEK ŠMAHEL
- trough eyes of MATEJ MINÁČ
VLADIMÍR RENČÍN
- trough eyes of JAN ŠPÁTA
JAN KAČER
- trough eyes of JANA HÁDKOVÁ
MARTIN DOKTOR
- trough eyes of JÁN SEBECHLEBSKÝ
PAVEL ŠMOK
- trough eyes of TEREZA KOPÁČOVÁ
MARTA KUBIŠOVÁ
- trough eyes of JAN NĚMEC
VĚRA ČÁSLAVSKÁ
- trough eyes of OLGA SOMMEROVÁ
STELLA ZÁZVORKOVÁ
- trough eyes of FRANTIŠEK FILIP
JIŘÍ HUBAČ
- trough eyes of JAROMIL JIREŠ