Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing

25  Alois Fisárek

Alois Fisárek is another witness to and participant in the flowering of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s. For instance he was the editor on three of Vera Chytilová’s important features. More recently he has worked a number of times with Jan Sverák. The decay of the State Cinema Industry in the Czech Republic has created an artistic vacuum which leaves Alois sceptical about the future.

I was born on January 7th 1943 at Opočno which is in Eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic). My Father was an academic painter and a professor at the Artistic-Industrial University in Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His creative period was between the 1930s and 1970s. My Mother was a literary agent and publisher.

Alois Fisáek ...