Director, cameraman, and independent producer Petr Jančárek (* 1959) is the recipient of several awards and nominations (the Ferdinand Peroutka Award, Best Film at the Politics on Film Festival in Washington, D.C., an award for the best Czech popular science film, etc.). He has worked as a director for Czech Television and is a founding member of the People in Need foundation. He has created a number of TV documentaries from war zones (Sarajevo, Bosnia, Chechnya), and in recent years has mainly worked on socially-oriented documentaries (Through the Labyrinth of the Revolution, Václav Havel, Prague – Castle, etc) From 2003 onward he worked with Václav Havel as a creator of audio-visual programmes, and in 2009 – 2011 he recorded in detail the last years of the president’s life.
Czech Republic