Zdeněk Svěrák

Known for WritingBorn 1936-03-28 (age 90)Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Cimrman in the World of Music

The Stand In

The Horns

Plum Tree

Narostl mu hřebínek

Africa

The Conquest of the North Pole

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

The Witches of the Suburbs

Long, Broad and Nearsight

An Uncertain Season

Czech Heaven

The Three Veterans

Blaník

Give the Devil His Due

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!

The Nude

Bridal Tour to Jilji

Kolya

Lijavec

Dveře

The Elementary School

My Sweet Little Village

Psaní do nebe

Fimfarum - To the good of all

Ball Lightning

Ruffiano and Sweeteeth

Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book

Secluded, Near Woods

As Good as Poison

StarDance

Daddy

The Hit

Run, Waiter, Run!

Joachim, Put It in the Machine

Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan

Úsměvy

Dark Blue World

Šaráda

Posel z Liptákova

The Ride

Empties

Accumulator 1

Larks on a String

Long Live Ghosts!

Murder in a Parlor Car Compartment

Kooky

Dissolved and Effused