Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdeněk Svěrák has built a career as a screenwriter with a filmography built off camera. 'Kolya' is where the largest audience encountered this work. 'Dark Blue World' is the other project that tends to come up. Cinema and television have both taken up part of the working life.
Zdeněk Svěrák
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Zdeněk Svěrák has built a career as a screenwriter with a filmography built off camera. 'Kolya' is where the largest audience encountered this work. 'Dark Blue World' is the other project that tends to come up. Cinema and television have both taken up part of the working life.
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Barefoot
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2017
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Three Brothers
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2014
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Czech Heaven
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2008
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40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry
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2007
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Long, Broad and Nearsight
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2007
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Empties
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2007
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Cimrman in the World of Music
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2006
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Africa
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2002
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Dark Blue World
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2001
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How old is Zdeněk Svěrák and where are they from?
Zdeněk Svěrák is 90 years old, born on March 28, 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
What are the most famous roles of Zdeněk Svěrák?
Zdeněk Svěrák is best known for directing Kolya, Dark Blue World, My Sweet Little Village.
How many movies has Zdeněk Svěrák directed?
Over a 53-year career (since 1973), Zdeněk Svěrák has directed or written 38 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Zdeněk Svěrák's first movie?
The career of Zdeněk Svěrák began with Spolužáci (1973).
What is Zdeněk Svěrák's most recent movie or series?
Zdeněk Svěrák's most recent release is My Freedom, which premiered on November 15, 2019.
Zdeněk Svěrák
1936-03-28 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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.