Zdeněk Svěrák
Actor, Film story contributor
1936 –
Who is Zdeněk Svěrák?
Zdeněk Svěrák 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 and The Elementary School, both directed by his son Jan Svěrák. With his close friend Ladislav Smoljak, he created the fictional personality Jára Cimrman who won the voting for The Greatest Czech in 2005. Zdeněk Svěrák also founded a charity organization Paraple which is helping paralysed people.
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- Born
- Mar 28, 1936
Prague - Also known as
- Zdenek Sverak
- Zdenek Sverák
- Zdenek Sverák and Collective
- Václav Sverák
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Czechs
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- Profession
- Education
- Charles University in Prague
- Lived in
- Prague
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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