Young Czech actress Zuzana Schnöblingová (1946) appeared in a handful of films in her country during the 1960s. She had a leading role in her first film, but in later films, she played only supporting and bit parts.
East-German postcard by VEB Progress Filmvertrieb, no. 1682, 1962. Retail price: 0,20 DM. Photo: publicity still for Červnové dny/June Days (1961).
Zuzana Schnöblingová was a Czech film actress, born in 1946. She made her film debut as a girl of 14 or 15 in Červnové dny/June Days (Antonín Kachlík, 1961), a Czech drama in neorealist style. The story is about a passionate but innocent love between two teenagers (Schnöblingová and Jiri Bednar) in a small mining village and the insensitive adults around them. The subject was quite shocking at the time and the film was only shown in smaller cinemas, but still, the film attracted almost a million visitors in only two months.
Three years later Zuzana had a supporting part in Kdy brečí muži/When Men Cry (Jan Valášek, 1964). The following year she had a bigger part in the Sci-Fi comedy Ztracená tvář/The Borrowed Face (Pavel Hobl, 1965) starring Jana Brejchová. The film was based on a short story by Czech Science-Fiction writer Josef Nesvadba. The plot is about a criminal who forcibly switches, via an operation, his face with a priest. The result is a change in their behaviours to suit their new appearances. In conclusion, it is shown that this is just a transitional phenomenon – the reality of people's natures is not proven to be changed by having a different face.
That year she also appeared briefly in the crime film Alibi na vodě/Alibi on the Lake (Vladimír Čech, 1965). Another crime film was Slečny přijdou později/Ladies come later (Ivo Toman, 1966). That year, she also appeared in Mučedníci lásky/Martyrs of Love (Jan Němec, 1966) with singer Karel Gott in his film debut. The film's surrealist lyrical style did not endear it to the authorities and for his next project, director Němec was forced to work outside the government-approved system.
Zuzana Schnöblingová's last film was Když má svátek Dominika/Dominika's Name Day (Jan Valášek, 1967). This was a family film in which a boy exchanged his little brother for a cat. These parts were only bit roles. Then every trail of Zuzana Schnöblingová went dead when we wrote this post in 2013. She was only 21 at the time. What happened to her?
More than ten years later one of her children saw our post and commented on 8 March 2024: "She's our mom. She went to Italy at the end of 1966. There she met our father and married him. Then I was born and then my brother. With two children, she managed to study and become a doctor. She practised this profession for 35 years while continuing to hang out with her old Czech friends like Milos Forman and others. She returned to Prague, her beloved city, around 2006, where she still lives."
Sources: CSFD.cz (Czech), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
This post was last updated on 9 March 2024.
East-German postcard by VEB Progress Filmvertrieb, no. 1682, 1962. Retail price: 0,20 DM. Photo: publicity still for Červnové dny/June Days (1961).
Neorealist style
Zuzana Schnöblingová was a Czech film actress, born in 1946. She made her film debut as a girl of 14 or 15 in Červnové dny/June Days (Antonín Kachlík, 1961), a Czech drama in neorealist style. The story is about a passionate but innocent love between two teenagers (Schnöblingová and Jiri Bednar) in a small mining village and the insensitive adults around them. The subject was quite shocking at the time and the film was only shown in smaller cinemas, but still, the film attracted almost a million visitors in only two months.
Three years later Zuzana had a supporting part in Kdy brečí muži/When Men Cry (Jan Valášek, 1964). The following year she had a bigger part in the Sci-Fi comedy Ztracená tvář/The Borrowed Face (Pavel Hobl, 1965) starring Jana Brejchová. The film was based on a short story by Czech Science-Fiction writer Josef Nesvadba. The plot is about a criminal who forcibly switches, via an operation, his face with a priest. The result is a change in their behaviours to suit their new appearances. In conclusion, it is shown that this is just a transitional phenomenon – the reality of people's natures is not proven to be changed by having a different face.
That year she also appeared briefly in the crime film Alibi na vodě/Alibi on the Lake (Vladimír Čech, 1965). Another crime film was Slečny přijdou později/Ladies come later (Ivo Toman, 1966). That year, she also appeared in Mučedníci lásky/Martyrs of Love (Jan Němec, 1966) with singer Karel Gott in his film debut. The film's surrealist lyrical style did not endear it to the authorities and for his next project, director Němec was forced to work outside the government-approved system.
Zuzana Schnöblingová's last film was Když má svátek Dominika/Dominika's Name Day (Jan Valášek, 1967). This was a family film in which a boy exchanged his little brother for a cat. These parts were only bit roles. Then every trail of Zuzana Schnöblingová went dead when we wrote this post in 2013. She was only 21 at the time. What happened to her?
More than ten years later one of her children saw our post and commented on 8 March 2024: "She's our mom. She went to Italy at the end of 1966. There she met our father and married him. Then I was born and then my brother. With two children, she managed to study and become a doctor. She practised this profession for 35 years while continuing to hang out with her old Czech friends like Milos Forman and others. She returned to Prague, her beloved city, around 2006, where she still lives."
Sources: CSFD.cz (Czech), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
This post was last updated on 9 March 2024.
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She's our mom. She went to Italy at the end of 1966, she met our father and married him. Then I was born and then my brother. with 2 children she managed to study and become a doctor. she practiced this profession for 35 years, while continuing to hang out with her old Czech friends like Milos Forman and others. She returned to Prague, her beloved city, around 2006, where she still lives..
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