The difficult fate of the paralyzed actor Petr Debnár († 62): The shocking amount of the pension! He lived in poverty

Actor Peter Debnár was one of the most popular and most booked artists in the 70s and 80s. After he suffered a severe cerebrovascular accident in 1994 and became paralyzed on the entire left side of his body, his life turned upside down, the weekly writes.

He got back on his feet only thanks to optimism, but despite all his efforts, he had to give up his beloved acting. He was permanently left with a non-functioning hand, so he had to go on a disability pension.

“I was 52 years old, fast-paced life and suddenly nothing. Days full of emptiness. My family, my wife Magdaléna and my two daughters Katka and Zuzka, were a big support at the time,” he said in an interview for PLUS 7 DNÍ in 1999. In 2003, director Peter Krištúfek cast him in a small role in the film Dlhá kratka noc. After the premiere in the following year, Peter Debnár died.

In one of the interviews for the weekly, he returned to the period of his beginnings. “To be honest, talent cannot be estimated. That is simply not possible. For example, they didn’t take me to VŠMU because they say I have a Hungarian “a”. Jula Satinský was told that he had an immobile upper lip. Lasica was also fired. They claimed that he had sick vocal cords. Apparently, right after graduation, he would be disabled without a voice,” the actor surprised.

In his prime, he was a rip-off, but he lived on after retiring on disability pension. His sum honestly shocked him.

“Imagine that, when calculating the disability pension, they informed me that I don’t have years of service. They had no proof that I was employed at the Poetry Theater or the Korzo Theater. I ended up having to use the testimony of at least two people. All my life, I paid at least 22 crowns in tax from every one hundred crowns earned. From what I earned, I paid hundreds of thousands of crowns to the state in taxes, but it was not reflected in my pension. They gave me as much as a person who may have never worked – 5150 crowns,” the Slovak actor revealed the overwhelming amount.