Zdenek Mahler, who was a student of Faculty of Arts in Prague, worked as a freelance writer and screenwriter and published several books.
As a student of Faculty of Arts in Prague Mahler cooperated with Student magazines and also with Ceskoslovensky rozhlas where he get regular job after finishing his studies. Since 1960 he worked as a freelance writer. He published several books, such as Search for golden age (1965, translated to English in 1966) and biographies of famous persons, such as Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Antonin Dvorak, or Ema Destinova. As a screenwriter Mahler contributed to the creation of several successful films, such as Nebesti jezdci (1968), Den sedmy, osma noc (1969), The Divine Emma (1979), Concert at the End of Summer (1980), Amadeus (1984), Goya's Ghosts (2007), Lidice (2011) and many other films or TV documentaries. 
