Slovak movie director Juraj Jakubisko, who was named one of the best director of the twentieth century in his nation and dubbed the “Fellini of the East”, has died on the age of 84, Slovak public broadcaster RTVS mentioned on Saturday. Jakubisko died in Prague, the place he lived, his daughter informed RTVS.

The director studied movie within the Sixties in Prague, becoming a member of a technology of Czechoslovak New Wave film-makers and launched his function debut, the autobiographical “The Prime of Life” (Kristove Roky), in 1967. His movies have been banned after the 1968 Prague Spring, a quick interval of liberalisation in then Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia, was halted.

Jakubisko returned to function film-making within the Nineteen Eighties, with Federico Fellini’s spouse, Giulietta Masina, starring in his fairy story “Perinbaba” in 1985. He launched “Bathory”, his first English-language movie, in 2008 to inform the story of Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, regarded as one of many world’s most infamous serial killers.

After that, he turned his consideration extra to producing.

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