• Juraj Jakubisko has passed away. He was 84.
• He was honoured as his nation’s best film director of the 20th century.
• Jakubisko passed away on Friday just before midnight in Prague.

PRAGUE (AP) — Juraj Jakubisko, a Slovak filmmaker who was honoured as his nation’s best film director of the 20th century, has passed away. He was 84.

According to his daughter Janette, Jakubisko passed away on Friday just before midnight in Prague, where he had lived with his family ever since Czechoslovakia split in 1993. The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic also reported his passing.

Many honours from international film festivals have been given to Jakubisko’s dozens of short and feature films.

He was frequently referred to as the “Fellini of the East” or the “Slovak Fellini” after the renowned Italian director Federico Fellini for his metaphorical, symbolic, and poetic films.

Jakubisko, who was born on April 30, 1938, in the village of Kojsov in what is now eastern Slovakia, earned his degree in film and television production from Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts in 1966.

The next year, he made his musical debut with “Crucial Years,” which received accolades. He solidified his place as a member of the Czechoslovak New Wave in cinema with that, as well as “Deserters and Pilgrims” (1968) and “Birds, Orphans, and Fools” (1969), with a number of other young filmmakers of the time, including Milos Forman and Vera Chytilova.

The hard-line communist dictatorship that was founded after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, which put an end to the Prague Spring period of liberal reforms, outlawed all of those movies.

Throughout the following ten years, he was only permitted to produce documentaries. In 1979, he made his comeback on the big screen with “Build a Home, Plant a Tree,” which was shortly also outlawed.

His most notable achievement was “The Millennial Bee,” a 1983 epic family drama set in the late 19th and early 20th century that received prizes at Venice and Seville film festivals.

Giulietta Masina, the wife of Fellini, played the lead role in Jakubisko’s children’s fairy tale “The Feather Fairy” in 1985.

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