Jiří Sovák and his writings, or The treatment of laughter

Hilarious stories from the life of the important Czech theatre and film actor and comedian Jiří Sovák, who in his memoirs returns not only to his father, an innkeeper, who stifled his acting aspirations, but also to his mother, who, on the contrary, was drawn to amateur theatre. But the famous actor does not omit hilarious stories with his colleagues, directors and friends in his memoirs. "Writing a biography is like talking over your own grave," used to say Jiří Sovák, an unmissable man of the Czech theatre and film scene of the 1960s and 1980s. "I've always tried to entertain people - so I won't spoil it with some boring chatter in my old age," he added. It reads: Oldřich Vlach