Vladimír Menšík

"Humor is a serious thing. Any creative work can not do without the internal well-being of the creator. Joy and suffering is possible in the art of capitalize only when it is in depth experienced. Are in a person's life events and situation beyond his powers, but more often trouble us and rozdrobují various petty things, which we attach greater importance than they actually have. The ability to maintain inner well-being lies in the fact, to find things in the right place in the ranking of values and the pay is substantial. Popular can be on time, even a dilettante, while a good actor sometimes remains on the edge of the spectator and vocational interest. Lidovost is in the veracity and even the humor isn't humor without humanity and kindness.“ - From the book In. Germany the Tree of my happy life. Vladimír Menšík, a native of the moravian Ivančice, is regarded by many as the best Czech film actor of all time. Since childhood he liked to go on pilgrimages, feast, merry-making and he was all the world rides, circuses and šumařů impressed. Started in the music file Adolf Pištěláka. Father but his artistic spree did not like, and so Vladimir had to first graduate from industrial school and take a job in Brno machinery works. The theatre, however, it further attracted. Later, he tried to get at JAMU in brno. On the second attempt he succeeded, and after graduating he was posted to the Village theatre. There it appeared E.F. Burian, who also became involved. In his theatre Menšík got the opportunity to play, sing, dance and recite. Although this environment fully engulfed, wanted to meet the movie. For the first time stood in front of the camera during the filming of the picture a BIG OPPORTUNITY and as an extra he performed a few more times. More drew attention to himself the role of Italian mechanics in the Radokově the movie the GRANDFATHER of the AUTOMOBILE. Thanks to the filming, he came into conflict with E.F. Burian, that the film he hated, which was the main reason why Menšík left the theater and signed a contract with a Film studio Barrandov. To the boards then returning only sporadically. On the other hand, at the turn of the 50. and 60. years could fully start his film career. Beside the roles of the comic character (bartender in LIMONÁDOVÉM JOE, a cop in a WHITE LADY, ing. The devil in the MURDER of ING. HELL...) control characters grotesque or even dramatic (the waiter Kici in detective 105% ALIBI, the janitor from the snapshot WHEN he COMES in the CAT, the monk Bernard in the MARGARET LAZAR or Jořka Pyřk from the unforgettable film ALL my COMPATRIOTS). Milos Forman cast him in his act of the LOVE of ONE BLONDE. In the 70's. years, but he appeared mostly in comedies, where he was a frequent acting partner of George Owl. He played also in many fairy tales and soap operas. Vladimír Menšík loved by the audience and the audience loved him. Television it therefore often made use of as a storyteller, entertainer and comedian. You can't even quantify how many shows he performed. It is worth noting, for example, the cycle an undergraduate. Although it is still more hindered by health problems, well supported by his obsessive smoking and fondness for alcohol, played, and performed up to the last forces. In may 1988, he performed in the tv Alphabet, where it Jitka Molavcová had to support. Two days later, he died in Brno. His charm and brilliant storytelling, however, will remain forever recorded on film, television and radio records as a gift to the next generations.