Jaromil Jireš
Jaromil Jireš (10 Dec 1935–24 October 2001) was a prominent Czechoslovak New Wave filmmaker. He directed The Joke, adapted from a novel by Milan Kundera, and Valerie a týden divů based on a novel by Vítězslav Nezval, among other works.
Another of Jires' prominent works was Valerie and her Week of Wonders which was released in 1970. It was a surrealist film about the sexual awakening a young women in a gothic style. The film noted for having soft-core pornography which was taboo.
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