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Czech director
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16 March 1939(Brno)
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Biography
Introduction
Petr Weigl (born March 16, 1939, Brno) is a Czech director and playwright.
Biography
In 1961 he graduated from the Prague Film School and the Academy of Performing Arts Television. He worked in the cinema, on television (1961-1976), at the National Theatre (Narodni divadlo, 1976-1991). He created a number of short and feature films for the Czech and Slovak Television, as well as for German public channel ARD and ZDF, British channels BBC and Channel 4. He was twice nominated for the Emmy Award.
He worked in the theaters of Paris and Munich. A major success was the production of Richard Strauss's opera "Salome" in the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.