Jana Boková
- Known for
- Directing
- Movies
- 19
Boková (born in 1948) is a Czech film director.
Born in Prague, she left Czechoslovakia at the time of the Soviet invasion in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne. She then lived in the United States and worked as a contributing photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, and subsequently became a film student at the National Film School in England debuting as a film director in 1975 with the critically acclaimed Militia Battlefield. She made films regularly for the BBC arts series Omnibus and Arena, winning many international awards.
She wrote and directed the 1986 drama film Hôtel du Paradis, which was shown out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2005 | Night Watch | Lady Cocaina |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2003 | Eric Clapton and Friends | Director |
| 1998 | Diary for a Tale | Director |
| 1994 | Bahia of All the Saints | Producer, Director |
| 1990 | Havana | Director |
| 1986 | Paradise Hotel | Director, Writer |
| 1984 | Sunset People | Director |
| 1981 | Dallas — The Big Store | Director, Producer |
| 1980 | Quinn Running | Director |
| 1980 | Blue Moon | Producer, Director |
| 1979 | I Look Like This | Director |
| 1978 | Living Room | Director, Producer |
| 1978 | Marevna and Marika | Director |
| 1977 | Love Is Like a Violin | Director |
| 1977 | Just One More War | Director |
| 1975 | Militia Battefield | Director |
| 1974 | Jokey | Director |
| 1973 | Déjà Vu | Director |
| 1972 | A Cette Minute | Director |
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