User:Pajanak/Dan Svátek

Dan Svátek (b. 1975, Dačice, Czech Republic) graduated from a Film Academy with the short-length film Owl River (1997), which won a number of awards. He gained experience on the set of the action thriller by Brian De Palma Mission: Impossible as a director trainee. Together with Vladimir Drha and Pavel Melounek, he was involved in the collection of film stories The Beginning of the World (Začátek světa, 2000) with the segment entitled Twilight of Hope (Zatmění nadějí). In the book Journey round the World (2000) he describes his experiences on a 13-month cycling expedition which he joined as a member of the film crew. He also brought out a book adaptation of his feature debut, the drama The Damned (Zatracení, 2002), a story of a young man being arrested while trying to smuggle heroin from South-East Asia, and which was screened in the main competition at the Moscow IFF. Dan Svátek made a fictional documentary about a Buddhist sect entitled The Return of the Earth’s Balance (Návrat zemské rovnováhy, 2002), the documentary Thai Prisoners (Thajští vězni, 2003) and the feature film Close to Heaven (2005) with Swedish star Tuva Novotny. In 2009 Svatek finished next full-length film called Unknown Hour, which was very vell rated.