Born in Hlinsko in 1913 and dying in Ljubljana in 1972, František Čáp was a Czech director who began to make films in the Protectorate years. Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel, 1946), a Second World War film about the Czechoslovak ground crews of the Royal Air Force and the resistance, won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1946. After the Communist coup of 1948 he emigrated to Yugoslavia, and spent his final years making films in Slovenia.
Filmography
- Men Without Wings (1946)