Petr Čepek

Petr Čepek (54)

1940-09-16 - 1994-09-20 | 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.

On Movies

  • Thanks for Every New Morning
  • Faust
  • Mystery of the Puzzle
  • Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
  • The Elementary School
  • Byli jsme to my?
  • Svědek umírajícího času
  • Nudity
  • Křížová vazba
  • Skřivánčí ticho
  • Muka obraznosti
  • Mark of Cain
  • Cesta na jihozápad
  • The Damned House of Hajn
  • Dobří holubi se vracejí
  • Nine Circles of Hell
  • Zrcadlo nenávisti
  • Magician
  • Zatmění všech sluncí
  • Smích se lepí na paty
  • Kdo se bojí, utíká
  • Etudes for Piano Students
  • Landscape with Furniture
  • Extended Time
  • Všichni musí být v pyžamu
  • My Sweet Little Village
  • Dissolved and Effused
  • The Brave Blacksmith
  • The Three Veterans
  • The Snowdrop Festival
  • Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
  • Putování Jana Amose
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • Ferat Vampire
  • Sluníčko na houpačce
  • Jasnovidec
  • Night Riders
  • The Hit
  • Cutting It Short
  • Hordubal
  • Diagnóza smrti
  • The Cat Prince
  • The Secret of Steel City
  • Pracka v láhvi
  • Ráno pod mesiacom
  • Past na kachnu
  • Súkromná vojna
  • Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
  • Ráno budeme moudřejší
  • Concert for the survivors
  • Škaredá dědina
  • The Motive for Murder
  • Rambling Engelbert
  • Morgiana
  • Návraty
  • The Death of Black King
  • A Touch of a Butterfly
  • Prince Bajaja
  • Oil Lamps
  • Granny
  • Revizor
  • Aesop
  • I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
  • Adelheid
  • Nightmares
  • Looking Back
  • The Valley of the Bees
  • The End of Agent W4C
  • Hotel for Strangers

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