Martin Suchánek grew  up up together with his family in a Children Shelter Home in Ušovice near Mariánské Lázně where his mother worked as a director at that time. His father, a painter and graphic artist Vladimír Suchánek, definitely influenced his artistic wiev of the world.
Martin Suchánek profiled into an author of documentary films with the feeling of dramatics, and with the sense of visual exclusiveness and wonderful spectacle, not very common in our country. He often uses played sequences and his creative approach was surely influenced by his practical experience in advertising. His films are monumental by grand-scale generosity both of the content and form, reached by exhausting working effort of himself and, at the same time, of all his stuff co-workers. The genre of his work are essays or life storylines,  the topic of which concerns the world of classical music (except the representative and emotive film about the Municipal House in Prague called Secession/Art Nouveau Inspiration – from 1994): huge and respectable portraits of four Czech musicians contributing differently to world music heritage – Legend by the Name of Kubelík (1999), Antonín Dvořák – Deo Gratias (2001), Václav Talich – Self-confidence and Hubleness (2004), Ecce Homo – Bedřich Smetana (2004). The series was concluded by a middle-footage stylized documentary about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his visits to Prague called Adieu Mozart (2005), screenplay by Zdeněk Mahler, belonging to Suchánek´s most appreciated films (e.g. Grand Prix at Arts&Film Telč 2006, Commendation of Honour FITES 2006).
Suchánek goes on surprising not only the viewers, audience, but also the festival juries, by his professional approach. All his films (except the above mentioned Mozart) have been awarded a number of prizes.
Lately the author has devoted himself to photography.

2010 WRINKLES, National Theatre - Piazetta, Praha
2010 INFINITY, Galerie na prádle, Praha
2008 PORTRAITS OF MY FRIENDS, Galerie na prádle, Praha

Film awards

GRAND PRIX A ZLATÁ MEDAILE - ALFA VIDEO 86, Brno 1986
BRONZOVÁ MEDAILE - FESTIVAL KRÁTKÝCH FILMŮ, Varna 1987
ČESTNÉ UZNÁNÍ -TOURFILM 92 , Karlovy Vary 1992
STŘÍBRNÝ KVĚT - TOURFILM 94, hlavní cena, Karlovy Vary 1994
GRAND PRIX - C.I.F.F.T., Vídeň 1994
STŘÍBRNÝ KVĚT - TOURFILM 97, Karlovy Vary 1997
ZLATÁ MEDAILE - MEFEST Zlatibor 1997
ZLATÁ MEDAILE - Varese Film Festival, Italy 1997
ČESTNÉ UZNÁNÍ - FESTIVAL DES FESTIVALS, Vídeň, 1997
ZLATÁ PECKA 1997 – Praha 1997
BRONZOVÝ KOMPAS - ITB Berlin, 1998
STŘÍBRNÝ KVĚT - TOURFILM 2000, multimédia, Karlovy Vary
BEST CZECH MULTIMEDIA 2001
NEJLEPŠÍ DOKUMENT ROKU 2001 (ELSA), cena České filmové a televizní akademie
1. CENA ARTS & FILM 2005
GRAND PRIX ARTS & FILM 2006
TRILOBIT Čestné uznání FITES 2006
CENA „ČESKÉ INSPIRACE“ ARTS & FILM 2007
BEST CAMERA - TOURFILM 2007 

Photographic awards

1st PRIZE IN PRAHA FOTOGRAFICKÁ COMPETITION 2010