Radúz Činčera

Radúz Činčera (June 17, 1923, Brno – January 28 1999, Prague) was a Czech screenwriter and director, the conceiver of the legendary Kinoautomat.

Career

Most of his life he was working in the Krátký film Praha (The Short Film of Prague) movie studio where he was author and director of a row of short documentary films.
Nevertheless his most famous work is the "Kinoautomat" the world's first interactive movie,citation | url=http://www.radio.cz/en/article/92388 | title=Groundbreaking Czechoslovak interactive film system revived 40 years later | date=14 June 2007 | publisher=Radio Prague | accessdate=2008-08-21 ] citation | url=http://www.kinoautomat.org | title=Kinoautomat: The world's first interactive film] for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal.citation | url=http://www.cbw.cz/en/kinoautomat:-interactive-cinema-comes-home/4735.html | title="Kinoautomat: Interactive cinema comes home" | publisher=Czech Business Weekly | date=28 May 2007 | accessdate=2008-08-21] Another big project of Radúz Činčera was "The Sound Game Show" at the "Man and His World" exhibition in Montreal in 1971. He had also astonished the world audience with his audio-visual projects in Kobe, Japan and in Vancouver, Canada.
In the second half of the 1980’s his multimedial music inscenation of the rock opera "The Scroll" had been extremely successful in Canada.

Like so many of the Czech artists Radúz Činčera too was banned to direct films and act in public after the Russian takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Filmography

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