
Petr Čepek
Born September 16, 1940 · 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.
Notable Appearances
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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

Cutting It Short

The End of Agent W4C

Dobří holubi se vracejí

The Death of Black King

Ferat Vampire

The Snowdrop Festival

Thanks for Every New Morning

Granny

Smích se lepí na paty

Etudes for Piano Students

Adelheid

The Valley of the Bees

Kdo se bojí, utíká

The Damned House of Hajn

Všichni musí být v pyžamu

Naďa Urbánková's Nightmares

Prince Bajaja

The Cat Prince

Mark of Cain

Putování Jana Amose

The Hit

Oil Lamps

Nine Circles of Hell

Jak přijít o život

Cesta na jihozápad

The Fall of the House of Usher

Revizor

Magician

Dissolved and Effused

The Motive for Murder

Diagnóza smrti

Mandragora

The Brave Blacksmith

Landscape with Furniture

Muka obraznosti

Nudity

Concert for the Survivors

Škaredá dědina

Aesop

Súkromná vojna

Hordubal

Návraty

Hotel for Strangers

Night Riders

Extended Time

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