🎬 Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)

Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech writer, screenwriter, and actor. He is well known for writing song lyrics in collaboration with Jaroslav Uhlíř, and as the screenwriter of films by Jiří Menzel and his son Jan Svěrák. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the screenplay of Kolja (1997).

He graduated from DAMU, after which he played for three seasons at the Vinohrady Theatre (then the Czechoslovak Army Theatre). He then anchored at the Drama Club until 1992, where his performances won him critical acclaim. He briefly performed at the National Theatre, but left the theatre permanently in August 1994.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague. Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journa…

Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965. After joining…

Míla Myslíková (1933–2005) was a Czech film, television, and theatre actress who trained at JAMU in Brno. Over more than four decades she appeared in over 90 roles, becoming best known for her comedic portrayals of spirited women and warm-hearted mothers. She is fondly remembered as Mrs. Šafránková in Dušan Klein's se…

Valerie Kaplanová (1917-1999) was a Czech stage and film actress who found wider fame only in her later years. Her gaunt frame, deeply lined face and rasping voice made her a natural fit for roles as old women and grandmothers. In Jára Cimrman ležící, spící she played the enigmatic museum guide who turns out to be Cim…