Bohdan Sláma
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bohdan Sláma was born in Opava, a city in the Northern Czech Republic
(then Czechcoslovakia) on 29 May 1967. Thirty years later, in 1997,
Sláma graduated from the FAMU, Prague's Faculty of Cinema. During his
student years, he made a short, "Zahradka Raj" (Garden of Paradise,
1994) which was shown at the Premiers Plans d'Angers Film Festival, in
the School Film Section. His first feature,
Divoké vcely (2001) (Wild Bees), the
portrait of a Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants, was
distinguished by no fewer than ten international prizes. Four years
later, the sensitive chronicle of a group of friends in a drab
industrial town, made Stestí (2005)
another prizewinner. Beautiful too was
The Country Teacher (2008), the
story of a teacher from Prague who decides to teach in the country. A
name to remember, Bohdan Sláma is one of the major talents of the Czech
cinema.
