Petr Brukner

Isn't he the one who can't ride a bike in the Snowdrop Festival, but can pass the boar at school? And isn't he also Jáchym, who throws František Koudelka's data into the machine? You know Petr Brukner (1943) not only from the films of the Smoljak and Svěrák duo, but also from the Jára Cimrman Theatre, where he has been playing successfully as a non-actor for decades. First of all, he is a native of Písek, who fills his life with various interests, next to the sports ones, like tennis, cycling or golf, These include listening to jazz music, pipe smoking, taking photographs or creating "photo shoots". And perhaps it is also worth mentioning that he has also been married for decades and has never been divorced in the slightest. This beautiful outcome is certainly not tempered by the fact that only a suicidal man would divorce the lawyer his wife is...

The book interview with the versatile artist is conducted by journalist and radio presenter Vladimír Kroc, author of the successful radio series Sound Chronicle of the Jára Cimrman Theatre.

Petr Brukner (1943), a distinctive actor and versatile artist, has been working at the Jára Cimrman Theatre since 1967, where he started as a stagehand and set designer. Despite his role as a student of cimrmanology in the seminar of the play Hospoda Na Mýtince, he developed into a tribal actor of the troupe. His acting is characterized by a comically shy, naive expression supported by a high-pitched voice. Director Jaroslav Papoušek described Petr Brukner as "the greatest living Czech naive actor". From the 1970s onwards, Petr Brukner appeared in film, first in films by the Smoljak-Svěrák duo, and later in others. Zdeněk Svěrák also used his peculiar acting in several television sketches. Petr Brukner's lifelong passion is photography, which he has been doing since childhood, among others. owns an extensive archive of pictures from behind the scenes of the Jára Cimrman Theatre and a collection of old cameras. It also creates the so-called. "phorazes", witty collages created from the paintings of the old masters.

Vladimír Kroc (1966) is a journalist and radio presenter. He studied foreign trade at the University of Economics in Prague. Since 1989 he has been working in the Czechoslovak, resp. Czech Radio. He has worked with Czech Television, TV3 and Z1. He is co-author of Pavol Habera in flagranti, Wanastowi Vjecy - Divnoknížka, Two on one, Centenary of Miroslav Zikmund, wrote the books Studio 6, Peter Nagy - Musicross, Southern Cross and Orion upside down. For the Ostrava studio of ČT he prepared and accompanied four thirteen-part cycles of Observations from elsewhere from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and most recently from Colombia. This was the basis for the book of interviews across the ocean with Eliška Krausová, entitled Airplane to the Unknown (PROSTOR 2021).