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Zdenek Sverák

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  • Actor
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Zdenek Sverák in Three Brothers (2014)
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Kolya (1996)
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As a result of being a dedicated Czech language teacher, Mr. Svìrák had little time for his creative writing. However, he soon opted to write articles for magazines, short stories for the youth, and TV screenplays. He also worked in the Czechoslavakian Radio on an entertainment program. In 1966, Mr Svìrák co-founded "The Theater of Jára Cimrman", a theater dedicated to the research of life and death of the newly discovered Czech genius. The theater exist to the present day, having produced twelve plays about this fictious hero that many believe in his existence. Since his first breakthrough into the entertainment business in the sixties Zdenìk Svìrák wrote numerous screenplays, an appeared manz times on both, the silver and the TV screens.
BornMarch 28, 1936
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Zdenek Sverák in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák, Frantisek Husák, Václav Kotva, and Jirí Slitr in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák and Frantisek Husák in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák and Vlastimil Brodský in Zlocin v santánu (1968)
Zdenek Sverák, Josef Abrhám, Daniela Bakerová, and Filip Smoljak in Run, Waiter, Run! (1981)
Zdenek Sverák and Ladislav Smoljak in You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971)
Zdenek Sverák in The Elementary School (1991)

Known for

Zdenek Sverák in Kolya (1996)
Kolya
7.7
  • Writer
  • 1996
Zdenek Sverák in Vratné lahve (2007)
Vratné lahve
7.2
  • Writer
  • 2007
Accumulator 1 (1994)
Accumulator 1
7.0
  • Writer
  • 1994
Gennadiy Nazarov in Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina (1994)
Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina
7.0
  • Writer
  • 1994

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Writer

  • Betlémské svetlo (2022)
    Betlémské svetlo
    • ...
  • Alois Grec in Barefoot (2017)
    Barefoot
  • Vojtech Dyk, Tomás Klus, and Zdenek Piskula in Three Brothers (2014)
    Three Brothers
  • Ceské nebe (2012)
    Ceské nebe
  • Zas je tady silvestr
    • (uncredited)
  • Ceské nebe (2010)
    Ceské nebe
  • Zdenek Sverák in Vratné lahve (2007)
    Vratné lahve
  • Cimrman v risi hudby (2006)
    Cimrman v risi hudby
  • Svestka (2002)
    Svestka
  • Dark Blue World (2001)
    Dark Blue World
  • Blaník (1998)
    Blaník
  • Vysetrování ztráty trídní knihy (1997)
    Vysetrování ztráty trídní knihy
  • Posel z Liptákova
  • Lijavec (1997)
    Lijavec
  • Hospoda na mýtince (1997)
    Hospoda na mýtince

Actor

  • Betlémské svetlo (2022)
    Betlémské svetlo
  • Stace Milone Cepelky (2021)
    Stace Milone Cepelky
  • Alois Grec in Barefoot (2017)
    Barefoot
  • Vojtech Dyk, Tomás Klus, and Zdenek Piskula in Three Brothers (2014)
    Three Brothers
  • Ceské nebe (2012)
    Ceské nebe
  • Ceské nebe (2010)
    Ceské nebe
  • Kuky se vrací (2010)
    Kuky se vrací
    • (voice)
  • Zdenek Sverák in Vratné lahve (2007)
    Vratné lahve
  • Talár a ptací zob
  • Afrika aneb Cesi mezi lidozravci (2002)
    Afrika aneb Cesi mezi lidozravci
  • Dark Blue World (2001)
    Dark Blue World
    • (uncredited)
  • Vysetrování ztráty trídní knihy (1997)
    Vysetrování ztráty trídní knihy
  • Lijavec (1997)
    Lijavec
  • Hospoda na mýtince (1997)
    Hospoda na mýtince
  • Akt (1997)
    Akt

Music Department

  • Dagmar Patrasová in Kolobezka první (1984)
    Kolobezka první
  • Princové jsou na draka (1980)
    Princové jsou na draka

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Trailer 2:31
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Kolya
Trailer 1:20
Kolya

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    • March 28, 1936
    • Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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    • 1 Pictorial

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    Father of director Jan Sverák

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