PRAGUE (AP) — Slovak filmmaker Juraj Jakubisko, who was named the best movie director of the 20th century in his country, has died. He was 84.
Jakubisko died shortly before midnight on Friday in the Czech capital, Prague, where he had lived with his family since the 1993 split of Czechoslovakia, his daughter Janette told Slovak public radio and television. His death was also announced by the Czech Culture Ministry.
Jakubisko has dozens of feature films and shorts to his credit that won a number of awards at international film festivals.
For his movies, full of metaphors, symbols and poetry, he was sometimes called “Fellini of the East,” or…
