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Vladislav Vančura

Czech writer, film director, playwright and screenwriter.

Born June 23rd, 1891 in Háj ve Slezsku. [ref]

Died June 1st, 1942 at 50 years old in Kobylisy (ballistic trauma). [ref]

Occupations
critic, film director, physician, physician writer, playwright, poet, screenwriter, writer

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson