Zdeněk Svěrák
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-03-28
Place of birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Images
Cast
Kolya
1996
7.32
Empties
2007
6.74
My Sweet Little Village
1985
7.26
Pocta V+W
2005
0.00
Ball Lightning
1979
6.90
The Three Veterans
1984
7.74
Accumulator 1
1994
6.86
Moderní byt
1971
3.33
Inzerát
1984
0.00
Calamity
1982
5.50
Dissolved and Effused
1985
6.70
Lijavec
1997
7.30
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
1976
7.70
Secluded, Near Woods
1976
7.18
An Uncertain Season
1988
7.80
The Hit
1981
6.90
Africa
2002
8.50
Basically Normal
1982
3.50
Chain
1981
2.00
Hearty Greetings from the Globe
1983
6.90
Czech Heaven
2008
7.40
Long, Broad and Nearsight
2007
8.70
Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan
1997
7.00
Pub in the Glade
1997
6.40
The Conquest of the North Pole
2007
7.90
The Stand In
1997
10.00
The Nude
1998
7.50
Cimrman in the World of Music
2006
10.00
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
1983
7.94
Joachim, Put It in the Machine
1974
7.14
Larks on a String
1969
6.80
Chinaski: Každej ví kulový
2022
0.00
What's Up Doc?
1985
5.71
The Elementary School
1991
7.24
Kooky
2010
6.66
Lucie and the Miracles
1971
3.75
Perspektiva Ivana Mládka
2023
0.00
Léta s Jaromírem Hanzlíkem
2023
0.00
Three Brothers
2014
6.40
Daddy
2004
6.30
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
2012
0.00
Silvestr 71
1971
0.00
Kouzelný kopec
2023
0.00
As Good as Poison
1986
6.50
Run, Waiter, Run!
1981
6.89
Bridal Tour to Jilji
1984
7.70
Cimrmani zblízka
2024
0.00
The Horns
1986
10.00
Like Rabbits
1982
3.67
Anatomie gagu
2008
0.00
Brontosaurus
1980
5.80
Stopa vede do Liptákova
1969
0.00
Barefoot
2017
5.30
Psaní do nebe
2017
7.00
Ruffiano and Sweeteeth
1997
6.80
Crime in the Night Club
1968
5.90
You Are a Widow, Sir
1971
6.80
The Snowdrop Festival
1984
6.60
30 Maidens and Pythagoras
1977
3.86
Operky
2016
0.00
Narostl mu hřebínek
1987
9.00
Bethlehem Light
2022
3.17
Cimrmani
1997
0.00
Tvrdý chleba
1990
0.00
Já a moji synové...
2002
0.00
Chirurgie
1989
0.00
Dobytí severního pólu
1991
0.00