Jan Kříženecký

Jan Kříženecký
Jan Kříženecký in his middle age

Jan Kříženecký (20 March 1868 Praha – 9 February 1921) was Czech cinema pioneer, director, cinematographer and photographer.

He started his work as an architecture student (his brother Rudolf Kříženecký also studied architecture and become architect). In collaboration with actor Josef Šváb-Malostranský, he filmed three comic short films (Dostaveníčko ve mlýnici, Plač a smích and Výstavní párkař a lepič plakátů) and more documentary short films. They were first exhibited in June 1898 at the Architecture and Engineering Exhibition in Prague. Kříženecký directed film up to year 1910, later he documented Prague for municipal authority as a photographer.

External links

• Jan Kříženecký at Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
• Jan Kříženecký at the Internet Movie Database