Zdeněk Svěrák
Birthday: 1936-03-28
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zdeněk Svěrák (born 28 March 1936 in Prague) is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1958, he graduated in Czech language and literature at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague. He has worked in a wide variety of capacities. His work contains more than 300 musical texts, plays and more than ten movies. Among his film scripts are Kolya (Czech: Kolja, Academy Award winning film) and The Elementary School (Czech: Obecná Škola, nomination for Academy Award), both directed by his son Jan Svěrák. With his close friend Ladislav Smoljak, he created the fictional personality (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher) Jára Cimrman who won the voting for The Greatest Czech in 2005 (only the fact that Cimrman is fictional prevented him from actually winning). Zdeněk Svěrák also founded a charity organization Paraple (in English, "Umbrella") which focuses on helping paralyzed individuals.
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Kolya
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...
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Empties
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no long...
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My Sweet Little Village
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community....
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Pocta V+W
Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture o...
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Ball Lightning
A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Acti...
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The Three Veterans
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the countr...
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Accumulator 1
In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the str...
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Moderní byt
Tenants are moving into new apartments in the housing estate, including a young couple. One of the n...
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Calamity
Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is train...
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Dissolved and Effused
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of o...
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Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book
The impetus for writing the play was a real event - the investigation of the loss of the class regis...
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Lijavec
When late in life was presenting Cimrman his artistic activity, came arresting knowledge: none of th...
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An Uncertain Season
The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance....
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is st...
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Secluded, Near Woods
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. Ho...
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The Hit
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers...
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Africa
The fourteenth Cimrman play takes us to the heart of a continent almost untouched by civilization. C...
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Basically Normal
The film follows Karel Novák, who is appointed as the head of a research institute's new department....
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Chain
Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of cri...
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Hearty Greetings from the Globe
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue....
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Pub in the Glade
On the occasion of the opening of the famous Vienna "Riesenrad," a competition was held for the best...
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Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan
The result of a clash between two intellectual forces: the artist's irrepressible creative instinct ...
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The Stand In
Poverty was one of the many unfortunate aspects of Cimrman's life. His traveling theater company, Li...
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The Nude
This traditional seminar will introduce you to the most basic facts about Jára Cimrman. The ensuing ...
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Cimrman in the World of Music
The original score was in a sorry state: the notes were carelessly marked, the lines were broken, an...
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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrma...
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a ...
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Larks on a String
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
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40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry
Jára Cimrman in the whirlwind of the past forty years, as discovered, recorded, and brought to life ...
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What's Up Doc?
Bohouš Burda, a forty-year-old idealist disillusioned with city life and his failing marriage, aband...
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Kooky
Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear nam...
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The Elementary School
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In...
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Lucie and the Miracles
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slap...
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Three Brothers
Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle ente...
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Daddy
This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák....
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The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt...
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Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti
A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979....
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As Good as Poison
Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching...
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Run, Waiter, Run!
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make ...
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Bridal Tour to Jilji
A scientist meets a nice girl and they start dating. He decides the only way to find out for sure if...
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The Horns
A humorous modern fairy tale for adults about the life of devils. This is the story of a young coupl...
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Like Rabbits
A story of two boys who during the summer at a recreation area become best friends despite being ene...
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How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions
A story about a young medical school student and his adventures....
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Brontosaurus
Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep...
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Barefoot
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavon...
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Psaní do nebe
The Jára Cimrman Theater staged its first premiere exactly 50 years ago, on October 4, 1967. Its mem...
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Ruffiano and Sweeteeth
Famed outlaw Lotrando sends his son to a strict Catholic boarding school to learn manners, but the b...
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Crime in the Night Club
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this cou...
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You Are a Widow, Sir
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, g...
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The Snowdrop Festival
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form o...
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30 Maidens and Pythagoras
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics te...
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Bethlehem Light
A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style ...
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