“I guess we’ll just have a drink with my wife and I’ll go to work on March 29, so I have to be fresh,” Svěrák told ČTK.
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The eighth film, in which he collaborated with his son Jan, will be called The Bethlehem Light. “Our son Jan wrote the screenplay according to my three short stories. It will be a chamber comedy in which I play the writer Karel Šejnoh. In fact, himself, “he said.
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So far, the last film After the Stubble of the Barefoot Father and Son Svěrák had its premiere in 2017.
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Supraphon has prepared a special birthday present in the form of a 3CD-MP3 set, which contains almost twenty-four hours of recordings from several decades.
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“As a young editor of Czechoslovak Radio, I tried to write a Sunday fairy tale. It was called Three Cars and was shot in 1963 by director Jan Fuchs. František Filipovský read my first short story on a microphone. It was called Ruina Must Be Braided. At that time, both events were a holiday not only for me, but also for my parents, who listened to me on the radio, “Zdeněk Svěrák recalled his beginnings.
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“The sound of literature and theater is a magical thing. A lot of listeners enjoy it before bed, they say, I fall asleep with you, and others mainly behind the wheel. Once I hurried from the cottage to a theatrical tour and shortened my journey through the narrow asphalt of the forest administration. Suddenly I see that the path is covered by a huge truck with a grab, which loads the trunks infested with bark beetles. I stopped and said to the man who controlled it, ‘What are we going to do about it? I’m in a hurry. ‘ He smiled and said, ‘If you sign all the CDs with Cimrman, I’ll dodge you.’ He had them in the cabin, so I signed them, “he added.
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The set Zdeněk Svěrák – Almost Everything is divided into three albums. The first two collect short stories, which he published in book form over the years and then read them himself. Three of them are read by Dana Kolářová and Libuše Šafránková.
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The third CD brings work for children. There are fairy tales, songs and operas on it, which he often wrote in collaboration with Jaroslav Uhlíř. Dozens of performers present themselves in them.
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“I decided to write for children with the feeling that I was not mature enough to have something to say to adult readers. The first book, in fact a small notebook, was the instructive story Why Painters Are Not Enough of a Beard. Later, when I wrote for children, I was helped by the fact that I became a father and my two children required a so-called story from the head for the night. I knew what they enjoy and what they are bored with, “said Svěrák about his work for children.
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Another gift for his birthday is a book called Stories and a Poem, published by Cosmopolis. “It’s eight short stories and one multi-page poem in a free verse, which does not prove that I am a poet, but that I am a bit of a clairvoyant. Because I predicted November 1989 in it in October 1989, so I am a clairvoyant with a view to one month, “he said.
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Zdeněk Svěrák is most connected with the Jára Cimrman Theater, in which a fictional character of the Czech genius Jára Cimrman appeared in the 1960s. Last year, in the Holy Cross, which is part of Havlíčkův Brod, they ceremoniously unveiled a statue of Cimrman with his quote “Some of my thoughts should be carved in stone. But only some “.
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“That can be applied to me as well,” Svěrák admitted. “I really miss the theater and I still can’t get used to not going there in the evening and not selling laughter. Because it’s such a beautiful job that we’re all ripped off about now. If you haven’t experienced it, you probably can’t understand how you miss it, “he said about the current closure of cultural facilities.
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