Unforgettable Slovak actor: Sudden death! – Topky.sk

Anton Korenči was born on December 16, 1931 in the village of Nová Ves nad Žitavou. In 1955 he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) and immediately got a job at the Regional Theater in Nitra (now the Andrej Bagar Theater). In 1960, he transferred to the SND drama in Bratislava, of which he remained faithful until 2006.

Anton Korenči played characters in many theatrical productions, among the Nitra ones we can mention the well-known Democrats Janko Jesenský, or the play Hernani Victor Hugo.

He made his film debut with a small role in Petr Solan’s film Face in the Window (1964). A year later, Ivan Teren cast him in the film Where Our Misery Lies, and in 1968 he starred in Roman Kalisky’s television adaptation The End or Beginning, directed by Igor Ciel.

One of the most famous films in which viewers could see it was Red Wine – a film made by director Andrej Lettrich in 1972 according to the famous novel by František Heček, a newer version was made in 1976. Lettrich also cast Anton Korenči in his crime story The Case of the Beautiful nerestnice from 1973. In the character of the shouted old bachelor Štefan Ondruš, Korenči used his civil acting with a sense of abbreviation.

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He also starred in Czech films by director Jaroslav Balík – in the film from the Second World War One Silver (1976) and in the story I Am the Wall of Death (1978). He starred in Ján Zeman’s film The Emotional Education of a Dash (1980). Two years later, Martin Hollý cast Anton Korenči in the famous fairy tale Salt over Gold. Korenči also appeared in the two-part film Old Pink Drama, which was shot in 1987 by Vido Horňák.

In the 1990s, he starred in several successful adaptations of literary and theatrical classics, such as Jacobowski and the Colonel, directed by Martin Huba (1990), and Kukučín’s filmed prose Young Years (directed by Pavol Haspra, 1993). The same director cast Korenči in the film The Torment of Conscience, based on a memoir by Eugen Löbel (1994), and finally in the film version of JM Simmel’s famous novel All People Will Be Brothers (1996).

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Anton Korenči has performed in several well-known series – for example In the Shadow of Wolves (1971), in the historical series Parisian Mohicans (1971) or Vivat Beňovský (1975). He also starred in the cult Slovak television series Lost and Found (1975) directed by Stanislav Párnický and also in the series Alžbetin dvor, which was shot in 1986 by Andrej Lettrich.

Anton Korenči, an actor who is not forgotten, died suddenly on September 29, 2008 in Bratislava at the age of 77. His son Štefan Korenči is a theater and radio director, and Anton Korenči Jr., a theater director and director of the Drama of the Košice State Theater, continues in the family tradition.

Source: RTVS