A graduate of the Film and Television College (FAMU) in Prague, he has worked as a documentary film and television director since 1975, except the years 1985–1990 when he was banned from working in the art sphere. As part of his systemic interest in issues related to the Balkans, the Caucasian countries, and the Middle East, he has directed the following films: Fears and Hopes of Montenegro (Montenegro), People of the Kodor River Valley (Caucasus), Armenia: The Legacy of Gregory the Illuminator (Armenia), Nagorno-Karabakh, The Adventists (Dagestan), Haykakan Yegekhetsi (Syria), and the Believers in Angel-Peacock (Iraq). He has produced films on cultural issues and personalities, such as Intimacy, or 24 Minutes With Jan Koblasa (on a Czech visual artist of European importance), Petr Spielman, or the Awareness of Interlinking (where the then director of a museum in Bochum, Germany tells the story of one of the largest collections of Czech visual arts outside the Czech territory), and Emil Juliš's Unavoidable Things (portrait of an experimental and reflexive poet). He has been involved as a long-term collaborator in the Czech Television's education cycle Diagnosis.
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