He is a historian, cultural manager, and filmmaker. He studied Ancient History at the Sorbonne, Paris 1, and the Ecole Practique des hautes Etudes, and Film at the Sorbonne, Paris 1. After earning a degree in film, he enrolled in the film directing program at the prestigious FAMU Film and Television School in Prague, where he was a student of director Vera Chytilová, earning a Master's degree. He later moved