Current Affairs Tatinek: a documentary tribute to actor-writer Zdenek Sverak by director son Jan
Zdenek Sverak, who is 68, would make many people's list of greatest living Czechs. An actor, co-creator of the much-loved Jara Cimrman theatre and writer of some of the country's most popular comic films, he is also a writer of children's songs, a great champion of the Czech language and a former Czech Radio broadcaster. His greatest international success was the 1996 Oscar-winning film Kolya, which he wrote and starred in. Zdenek Sverak is now the subject of a documentary called Tatinek (Dad) by his son Jan, the director of Kolya. He says that in Tatinek he got closer to the essence of his father than another filmmaker might have.
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