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Zdeněk Svěrák

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. Born : 28th-Mar-1936

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Kolya

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
Released : 15th-May-1996

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Empties

Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
Released : 8th-Mar-2007

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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. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit in to the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
Released : 1st-Aug-1985

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Ball Lightning

A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execute the exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy champions. Radosta, who was excellently played by Rudolf Hrušínský, solved all sudden difficulties and complications on the fly and with grace. To be sure that the on the D-day everything goes well he prepares a little rehearsal, which reveals many minor issues caused for example by wedding ordered to inappropriate term or hesitation of some participants. Last but not least a night exercise announced by drunk psychologist Knotků, creates a lot of confusion that nearly sabotaged the whole operation.
Released : 10th-Aug-1979

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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 country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.
Released : 1st-Jul-1984

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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 street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Double will pull life energy from him. So there's a mysterious Death-serial. Many persons die in front of their TV set and nobody knows why. Olda, the main character, is one of the persons, that get more and more weak. He is near death, till Fisarek, the natural healer appears. He teaches Olda how he can resist this magic force and how he can fight it.
Released : 24th-Mar-1994

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Calamity

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.
Released : 29th-Jan-1982

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Dissolved and Effused

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.
Released : 31st-Dec-1984

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Lijavec

When late in life was presenting Cimrman his artistic activity, came arresting knowledge: none of the works he had signed, not recognition. And so he decided to retreat to the anonymity of the author and become folklore. Clairvoyantly recognized that the modern era marked for extinction of folk creativity in areas such as the national song, story, legend, proverb or weather lore. The only thing from the oral folklore of die and stay alive is an anecdote. And she plays a significant role in his play Lijavec.
Released : 1st-Jan-1997

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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. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
Released : 10th-Sep-1976

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An Uncertain Season

The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance.
Released : 1st-Apr-1988

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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 studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
Released : 8th-Oct-1976

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The Hit


Released : 13th-Mar-1981

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Africa


Released : 5th-Oct-2002

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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 school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.
Released : 2nd-Aug-1991

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Kooky

Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in a forest occupied by strange animals and remarkable beings that he never heard of while living on the toy shelf in Ondra's room. And of course even in this small imaginary world, true good exists as does real evil, which Kooky must face up to in order to become a real hero.
Released : 19th-May-2010

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The Nude


Released : 27th-Dec-1998

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Long, Broad and Nearsight


Released : 28th-May-2007

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The Stand In


Released : 12th-Nov-1997

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Czech Heaven


Released : 28th-Oct-2008

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Pub in the Glade


Released : 1st-Jan-1997

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The Conquest of the North Pole

Cimrman's play about Czech expedition to north pole.
Released : 17th-Oct-1985

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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher).
Released : 1st-Oct-1983

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What's Up Doc?


Released : 1st-Jan-1984

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Three Brothers

Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs.
Released : 14th-Aug-2014

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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 computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
Released : 30th-Aug-1974

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Daddy

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.
Released : 30th-Sep-2004

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As Good as Poison


Released : 22nd-Dec-1985

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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 some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
Released : 9th-Jan-1981

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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 she’s the one is to take a long trip with her, but things don’t go quite as he’d hoped.
Released : 29th-Dec-1984

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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 couple in love: two devils named Artur and Blanka. Happiness for the young devil couple is disturbed and eventually destroyed by Artur's longing to keep up with others.
Released : 1st-Jan-1986

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Like Rabbits

A story of two boys who during the summer at a recreation area become best friends despite being enemies at first.
Released : 24th-Sep-1982

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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 the forests he loves clean and constantly fights his "archenemy" whose sister and Tomás's classmate is secretly in love with him.
Released : 22nd-Aug-1980

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Stopa vede do Liptákova


Released : 1st-Jan-1969

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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 Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city boy was used to.
Released : 17th-Aug-2017

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Psaní do nebe


Released : 4th-Oct-2017

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Ruffiano and Sweeteeth


Released : 11th-Sep-1997

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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, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
Released : 15th-Jan-1971

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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 of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.
Released : 1st-Jan-1984

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Crime in the Night Club

A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
Released : 20th-Dec-1968

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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 teacher employing innovative teaching methods.
Released : 16th-Sep-1977

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Operky


Released : 18th-Mar-2016

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Narostl mu hřebínek


Released : 1st-Jan-1987

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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 will grow worn. His everyday existence is enlivened by characters from his stories, who tend to enter reality in unexpected ways, at various stages of completeness and with all kinds of strange demands.
Released : 10th-Mar-2022

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Cimrmani


Released : 27th-Dec-1997

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Moderní byt


Released : 1st-Jan-1971

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Chinaski: Každej ví kulový

Documentary about the Czech band Chinaski.
Released : 26th-May-2022

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TV Credits

Největší Čech

Zdeněk Svěrák -
Released : 5th-May-2005

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Galasuperšou

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Released : 1st-Jan-1984

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StarDance

Special Judge -
Released : 4th-Nov-2006

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Zpátky se Sobotou

Self (archive footage) -
Released : 7th-Sep-2012

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Kam zmizel ten starý song

Self -
Released : 11th-Jan-2004

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Minišou Karla Šípa

Self -
Released : 27th-Mar-2021

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Cimrman sobě

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Released : 16th-Oct-1991

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Úsměvy

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Released : 1st-Jan-1996

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