Zdeněk Mahler (7 December 1928 – 17 March 2018) was a Czech writer, musicologist, pedagogue and screenwriter. He was born in Batelov, Czech Republic. He was known for his movies "Nebeští jezdci" (1968), "Den sedmý, osmá noc" (1969), "The Divine Emma" (1978), "Amadeus" (1984), "Goya's Ghosts" (2007), and "Lidice" (2011).