Czech actress Miriam Hynková († 77) she worked mainly in theater productions, but she also appeared in many series and films, where she played smaller and larger roles. One of the biggest roles was to be Princess Lada in the now cult fairy tale Princess with a Golden Star (1959). The reason it eventually came out was unfair and cruel, writes
Princess Lada was finally portrayed by Marie Kyselková († 83)but she should have gotten the job completely by accident. She came to the casting as a dancing extra. Director Martin Frič chose her at the last minute after how Hinková fell seriously ill shortly before filming.
The actress contracted polio, which is a highly contagious viral disease against which universal vaccination protects us today. A serious illness completely knocked her out of the game, even she was in danger of suffocating because her respiratory muscles were also partially paralyzed. Thanks to her own initiative and rehabilitation based on yogic breathing, she was able to recover. The only consequence was a disabled leg, but she managed to hide this handicap successfully.
She took the infidel to mercy
After graduating from DAMU, she worked in the Municipal Theaters of Prague, Brno and finally for many years in the EF Buriana Theater. During the rehearsals of one production, she met the director Evžen Sokolovský († 72), who fell passionately in love with her. He became a lifelong love for her, although she was already his third wife and not the last woman in his life.
Although Sokolovský was not one of the great elegans, he stood out for his charisma, humor and artistic ambitions. Miriam left her engagement for him and moved to Brno, where she started working at the Mahen Theater. However, their relationship immediately passed a difficult test when the director suffered a serious car accident and fell into depression. Miriam devotedly cared for him, and according to contemporary testimonies, it was her care that reawakened in him the desire to fight for his life.
At the end of the 1960s, the family moved back to Prague, where Sokolovský began working with the National Theater and television. Miriam found an engagement at the EF Buriana Theater and also appeared on television, but she was mostly getting secondary roles. In addition, she often appeared in her husband’s works, which he himself belittled, while was artistically and personally interested in significantly younger actresses. In the end, he left her for Eva Jakoubková († 53), but this relationship also soon fell apart.
Despite all the pain, Miriam behaved generously towards her ex-husband. When Sokolovsky was seriously ill and mentally broken, she took him back and cared for him until his death in 1998. With this, she concluded a complicated but strong relationship, which significantly marked her personal and professional life. She left forever on December 2, 2010 in Prague.
