Radúz Činčera

Dr. Radúz Činčera

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

Career

Most of his life he worked in the Krátký film Praha (The Short Film of Prague) movie studio where he was author and director of a series of short documentary films.
Nevertheless his most famous work is the Kinoautomat, the world's first interactive movie,^[1][2] for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal.^[3]

Another big project of Radúz Činčera was The Sound Game Show at the Man and His World exhibition in Montreal in 1971. He also astonished the global audience with his audio-visual projects in Kobe, Japan and in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In the second half of the 1980s his multimedia music inscenation of the rock opera The Scroll was extremely successful in Canada.

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

Filmography

Year	Title	Footage	Notes
1954	Kvety Tatier	short	dramaturgic cooperation
1956	Prečo kvitnú	short	director
1964	Romeo a Julie 63	middle	director
1966	Mlha (Documentary on Prague Divadlo Na zábradlí)	short	theme, screenplay, commentary
1966	Kinoautomat Člověk a jeho dům	full-length	theme
1966	Jak Sammy o kalhotky přišel	short	director
1968	Stroskotáme zajtra	short	commentary
1969	Documentary on the last moments of the comic duo Clow and Hamm, made to the 41. anniversary of the first sound film	short	director
1980	O dětech a slovech	short	director
1994	Hudební laboratoř	TV series	director

References

1. Groundbreaking Czechoslovak interactive film system revived 40 years later, Radio Prague, 14 June 2007, retrieved 2008-08-21
2. Kinoautomat: The world's first interactive film
3. Kinoautomat: Interactive cinema comes home (– ^{Scholar search}), Czech Business Weekly, 28 May 2007, retrieved 2008-08-21

External links

• Raduz Cincera at the Internet Movie Database