One of the greatest Czech acting stars, unforgettable and charismatic Miloš Kopecký, It was externally sovereign bonvivan, but inside a complex soul tested by severe mental illness. At the end of his life he published his serious mental problems he fought almost all his life – suffered from manic -depressive psychosis And it wasn’t easy with his two daughters, he writes.
Miloš Kopecký stood his life in front of the altar four times, but besides his wives he also held a lot of lovers. He showed his loves that they would not be the only one in his life and explained to them so diplomatically that they could tolerate him.
From the first marriage With Stella Ginger († 83), their daughter Jana was born, But her parents didn’t pay much time. When she was 15, she decided to force her parents’ attention and inadvertently to commit suicide.
The second daughter of Barbora from the last marriage He denied him again what offended him. For Kopecký, the loss of the first child was such a tragedy that he refused to talk about it. “That was a taboo and I didn’t know anything for a long time. There was a photo in the frame in the room, her name was Jan Katarína, but no one told me anything. That must have been a great pain for her father,” said Barbora once, who like her deceased sister didn’t have easy. She too She inherited a tendency to depressed after the hill.
“I am at home in Bohnice, I guess it’s judged. We went to my father first, then I lay there and today I have a horse. I love it there, I feel good there. I went through therapies that helped me, I started taking medication, but I experience them rather than I live. I am best in a psychiatric hospital where I think about life and death, ”she said years ago.
Miloš Kopecký was born on 22 August 1922 in Prague into a well -situated family Furl Vladimír Kopecký, who had a fashion salon and a shop in the center of Prague and former model, later hatts Marta Grimmová. In his youth, he had to overcome his father’s resistance to acting, who expected a son to enhance the fur business. Young Milos, however, attracted the theater. The desire for acting was more understood by his mother who supported him in an effort to become an actor.
But she did not live to see her son’s success. Due to her Jewish origin, the hill father divorced her and She ended up in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where she did not return. Miloš Kopecký remembered the terrible moment when he accompanied his mother on the trainthat was wearing her to a concentration camp.
The hell of the Nazi camp was also passed by the future famous actor, who was qualified as a Jewish mixer of Nazi laws. In August 1944 he had to enter the labor camp in Bystřice near Benešov. It remained in it until the end of May 1945.
Miloš Kopecký started playing during the occupation With a group of young artists shape, after the end of World War II he continued his acting career in the Větrník Theater. Later he was replaced by several engagement including the Emil František Burian Theater, the Music Theater in Karlín, the ABC Theater, he worked at the Prague National Theater and From 1965 until the end of his career he was a member of the ensemble of the theater in Vinohrady.
In 1979 he was awarded the title of Merited Artist and in 1985 the title of National Artist. He revived his roles with an innovative concept and a peculiar intelligent comedy, which ranked him among the Czech acting legends.
The memory of film viewers was indelibly enrolled in portraying characters in well -known films such as Proud princess, was one king once …, good soldier Svejk, Baron Prášil, lemonade Joe, white lady, Night at Karlštejn, Adéla had not yet dined, divine Ema, but three veterans.
His great acting art has also performed in television series Hříšní Lidé Města Prague and Slavný stories Zbojnické. However, the most famous task of Miloš Kopecký was the role of Dr. Štrosmajer in the series Jaroslav Dietl Hospital on the edge of the city.
“The man’s dishwasher and the Queen of England should be kept the same, that is, well and gallant. He died on February 16, 1996 in Prague at the age of 73. The last time in front of the camera appeared in a fairy tale Kouzelny Měšec, which premiered on February 22, 1996 – six days after his death.
