
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.
Acting (54 movies)

Kolya
1996

Empties
2007

My Sweet Little Village
1985

Pocta V+W
2005

Ball Lightning
1979

The Three Veterans
1984

Accumulator 1
1994

Calamity
1982

Dissolved and Effused
1985

Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book
1998

Lijavec
1997

An Uncertain Season
1988

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
1976

Secluded, Near Woods
1976

The Hit
1981

Africa
2002

Basically Normal
1982

Chain
1981

Hearty Greetings from the Globe
1983

Czech Heaven
2008

Pub in the Glade
1997

Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan
1997

Long, Broad and Nearsight
2007

The Conquest of the North Pole
2007

The Stand In
1997

The Nude
1998

Cimrman in the World of Music
2006

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
1983

Joachim, Put It in the Machine
1974

Larks on a String
1990

40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry
2007

Chinaski: Každej ví kulový
2022

What's Up Doc?
1985

Kooky
2010

The Elementary School
1991

Lucie and the Miracles
1971

Three Brothers
2014

Daddy
2004

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti
1979

As Good as Poison
1986

Run, Waiter, Run!
1981

Bridal Tour to Jilji
1984

Like Rabbits
1982

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions
1985

Brontosaurus
1980

Stopa vede do Liptákova
1969

Barefoot
2017

Psaní do nebe
2017

Ruffiano and Sweeteeth
1997

Crime in the Night Club
1968

You Are a Widow, Sir
1971

The Snowdrop Festival
1984

30 Maidens and Pythagoras
1977

Bethlehem Light
2022
