Petr Čepek

Known for ActingBorn 1940-09-16Died 1994-09-20Prague, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Cesta na jihozápad

Mark of Cain

Kdo se bojí, utíká

Návraty

Druhý dech

Všichni musí být v pyžamu

Revizor

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky

Thanks for Every New Morning

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

Dlouhá míle

Skřivánčí ticho

Dobří holubi se vracejí

Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře

The Physician of a Dying Time

Súkromná vojna

Byl jednou jeden dům

Looking Back

The Three Veterans

Byli jsme to my?

Faust

The Elementary School

Malý pitaval z velkého města

My Sweet Little Village

Granny

Aesop

Extended Time

A Touch of a Butterfly

The Hit

Příběhy slavných

Cutting It Short

Morgiana

Pan Tau

Concert for the survivors

Škaredá dědina

Rambling Engelbert

Dissolved and Effused

Bakaláři

Naďa Urbánková's Nightmares

The Valley of the Bees

The Cat Prince

Adelheid

Smích se lepí na paty

The Snowdrop Festival

The Brave Blacksmith

Night Riders

Loupežnická pohádka

Bambinot