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Martin Frič

Martin Frič
Born (1902-03-29)29 March 1902
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died 26 August 1968(1968-08-26) (aged 66)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation Film director, screenwriter
Years active 1922-1968
Spouse(s) Suzanne Marwille

Martin Frič (29 March 1902 – 26 August 1968) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He had more than 100 directing credits between 1929 and 1968, including feature films, shorts and documentary films.

Throughout his life, Frič struggled with alcoholism. On the day of Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he committed suicide, after battling cancer. He died in hospital five days later.


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