Petr Čepek
Acting · Born 1940-09-16 · age 54 at death · Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]
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 with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector). Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994. Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
Titles
My Sweet Little Village
Faust
The Elementary School
Morgiana
Cutting It Short
The Valley of the Bees
The Three Veterans
Ferat Vampire
The Snowdrop Festival
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Adelheid
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
The Secret of Steel City
Pan Tau
Dissolved and Effused
The Brave Blacksmith
The End of Agent W4C
Oil Lamps
The Damned House of Hajn
The Hit
The Death of Black King
Hotel for Strangers
Magician
Prince Bajaja
Night Riders
Diagnóza smrti
Nudity
Nine Circles of Hell
Byl jednou jeden dům
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
The Cat Prince
Muka obraznosti
Malý pitaval z velkého města
Křížová vazba
Pracka v láhvi
Hordubal
Landscape with Furniture
The Motive for Murder
Granny
Dobří holubi se vracejí
Svědek umírajícího času
Thanks for Every New Morning
Smích se lepí na paty
Past na kachnu
Extended Time
A Touch of a Butterfly
Bambinot
Kamenný orchestr
Skřivánčí ticho
Putování Jana Amose
Looking Back
Aesop
Loupežnická pohádka
Byli jsme to my?
Bakaláři
Druhý dech
Concert for the Survivors
Bitva na kopci
Návraty
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