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Břetislav Rychlík (Czech Republic)

Břetislav Rychlík

Director, actor, scriptwriter and journalist. He subsequently took many different jobs including labourer on a duck farm, and scene shifter, prompter and actor in various provincial theatres. Since 1982 he has worked as an actor and director at HaDivadlo, one of the leading alternative theatre companies. Between 1997 and 2000 he was a script editor for Czech Television in Brno. Since the second half of the 1990s he has devoted himself almost exclusively to his own documentary films focused on minority groups and the human conditions . Many of them has received awards at home and abroad.