He got to FAMU detour through medical studies and he was one from the famous generation of Otakar Vávra. Already at school and then even after finishing school he formed a tandem with screenwriter Pavel Juráček, they shot together, also valued abroad Kafka esque parable about Stalinist era Joseph Kilian (Postava k podpírání, 1963). In addition, he also directed unconventional sports documentaries. In August 1968 he found himself on the crew during filming in the Soviet Georgia, a romantic drama The Lanfier Colony (Kolonie Lanfieri 1969) could only be completed a year later. Normalization shifted his work to literary adaptations, but he still retained a sense of the action genre and boyish adventurism – for example in an impressive evocation of a private and social atmosphere of the fifties in The Return (Vracenky, 1990).