Karel Steklý

Karel Steklý (1903-1987) was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He is most famous for his film Siréna (1947) for which he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and for his adaptations of Jaroslav Hašek’s famous anti-war satires in The Good Soldier Svejk (1956) and I Dutifully Report, Sir (1957).