This was announced today by his friend, cultural manager Robin Suchánek. Našic was a theater and film photographer, for example documenting the shooting of Miloš Forman’s film Amadeus, which was mostly made in Prague in the early 1980s.
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According to Suchánek, Našic was found in his apartment. “Petr had no children, so from the position of a close friend I would like to inform you about this sad event,” said Suchánek.
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In addition to being the only Czech photographer to have the opportunity to take pictures behind the scenes and during the filming of Amadeus, he was also a court photographer for director Emir Kusturica and collaborated with prima ballerina Daria Klimentová, actor Vlastimil Brodský, announcer and presenter Kamila Moučková, opera singer Dagmar Pecková. designer Ivana Follová, journalist Světlana Witowska and many others.
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Photographer Petr Našic died at the age of 57. In addition to being the only one who had the opportunity to take pictures behind the scenes and the course of filming …
Posted by Robin Suchánek on Wednesday, January 26, 2022
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When Forman was filming Amadeo in Prague, Našic was 18 years old, he was just graduating from high school, and he got to the American staff by accident, without a contract. “They just suffered for me there for a few days, I didn’t have any privileges,” he said at one of the film’s exhibitions.
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Našic was born in 1964 and his first job was backstage in Vinohrady. He then worked in the production of a number of Prague stages, in 1997 he became an assistant professor at the Department of Scenography at DAMU. He completed a number of internships abroad and then was a freelance photographer.
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