Czech Oscar-winning film director Menzel dies aged 82

Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel died on Saturday evening aged 82, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday and Menzel's assistant Mila Radova confirmed the information to CTK. He made about 20 films as director and featured in many films as an actor. His Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledovane vlaky), a film after a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, won the best foreign language film Oscar in 1967.