2024-05-26 11:53:39
Actor and director Jan Kačer died on Friday morning, he was 87 years previous. His daughter Adéla Kubačáková introduced it. He was an icon of the brand new wave of Czechoslovak cinema, in 1965 he was on the founding of the Prague Drama Membership. He established himself as a theater director, directing for instance on the Vinohrady Theater or the Nationwide Theatre. In 2016, he obtained the Order of Tomáš Garrigu Masaryk from the President of the Republic.
Jan Kačer, theater magician and actor star of the brand new wave of Czech cinema, was a person of many life, theater and movie roles. A severe, considerate and, in accordance with his personal phrases, strict and partly ascetic director, he was an integral a part of Czech tradition for nearly six many years, which he enriched together with his quite a few actions. He additionally wrote 4 memoirs and was concerned in politics for a while.
Jan Kačer gained the best skilled recognition as a theater director. In 1965, he was on the start of certainly one of Prague’s most well-known theater scenes, the Drama Membership, the place within the following years he “made a reputation for himself” primarily with productions of Russian classics, comparable to Gogol’s Inspector, Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, Gorky’s On the Backside or Pinter’s Nativity. He additionally directed movies – I’m heaven (1970) or Metropolis of my hope (1978).
Nonetheless, it was their appearing roles that introduced Kačerov widespread reputation. Viewers remembered his fanatical knight Armin von Heide in František Vláčil’s Valley of the Bees or the spy in Václav Vorlíček’s comedy The tip of the W4C agent by means of Mr. Foustka’s canine. Within the Nineteen Sixties, he additionally appeared in outstanding roles in Evald Schorm’s movies Each Day of Braveness, Return of the Misplaced Son or Seventh Day, Eighth Evening.
In complete, he starred in virtually eight dozen movies, amongst which Loss of life Calls Engelchen, Flirt with Miss Silver, Witness to a Dying Time or Man in opposition to Destruction, and extra just lately Bolero or Výchova dívek v Čechá are additionally well-known. He appeared within the Jane Eyre collection from the Nineteen Seventies, but in addition within the “limitless” Ordinac within the Rose Backyard.
Visited overseas
Kačer already labored on the Petr Bezruč Theater in Ostrava throughout his research at Prague’s DAMU, the place he moved with a gaggle of classmates after ending faculty. He managed to considerably revive the theater there. After the stellar period of the Drama Membership, he was despatched into “exile” again to Ostrava within the mid-Nineteen Seventies.
Paradoxically, he was then allowed to go to overseas, however he took the ten lengthy years of separation from his household arduous. Kačer met his spouse Nina Divíšková at his research, they’ve been collectively for nearly sixty years and raised three daughters. The actress Divíšková, who excelled, for instance, within the movie Tales of Bizarre Insanity, died on June 21, 2021.
In 1986, Kačer returned to Prague, this time to the Vinohrady Theater, from the place he moved to the Nationwide Theater in 1990. For seven years there he directed new productions of the home and worldwide repertoire (Winter’s Story, Peer Gynt, Loss of life of a Service provider, Cloud and Waltz, Chairs, Unusual Birds), during which he additionally performed minor roles, after which he remained a member of the solid till 2015.
There have been additionally new provides from the movie: My Daughter’s Operation (1986) or Truly Nothing Occurred (1987). Considered one of his final movies was the 2018 household comedy Cottage for Sale, later he appeared within the household movie Gump – The Canine Who Taught Folks to Dwell (2021) and the co-production drama Moc (2023).
Entry into politics
The will to actively take part within the lifetime of society introduced Jan Kačer to the world of politics. Between 1990 and 1992, he was a deputy for the Civic Discussion board and later the Civic Motion. From 1995, he headed the Constitution 77 Basis, which offers help to disabled folks, for a decade.
At the start of the brand new millennium, the position of businessman František Rubeš within the collection Rodinná pouta and Velmi krehké vzátsá introduced him additional reputation, but in addition embarrassment not solely within the artwork world. Many couldn’t perceive {that a} acknowledged artist “wants” these years. Nonetheless, Jan Kačer rejected the criticisms directed at him, saying that he’s a theater actor who works on the premise of what’s supplied to him. He added that for him the time of huge roles has already handed, as a result of movie administrators normally make tales about their very own technology, and the older ones are of little curiosity.
The longer term director and actor was born on October 3, 1936 in Holice. His father was a service provider of Jewish origin who took his personal life after Nazi Germany occupied the Sudetenland. In doing so, he apparently saved his sons, then two-year-old Jan and his ten-year-old older brother, from deportation to focus camps and virtually sure loss of life. The younger Jan Kačer’s path led first to Bechyně, the place he graduated from a ceramics faculty, then to directing at Prague’s DAMU.
Kačer wrote 4 memoirs about his life: Jedu okay máma, Mírnou oklikou, Ok přítelům and Zadní vratak. Celebrating his eightieth birthday in 2016, he famous: “At 80, you see a world you have not seen earlier than. No ambition, no want to face out, no theft, no dangerous intentions, and all of a sudden life appears sweeter.”
The actor and director, who was some of the essential personalities of the Czech theater of the second half of the twentieth century, obtained the Medal for Benefit within the Discipline of Tradition from the President of the Republic Václav Havel in 1998, and in 2016 the Order of Tomáš Garrigu Masaryk for excellent contributions to growth from President Miloš Zeman democracy, humanities and human rights.