The house after Popelka Šafránková is abandoned: The widower has left! – Topky.sk

Josef Abrhám was born on December 14, 1939, and is the great-grandson of the Slovak Evangelical pastor and writer Jozef Hollé. After graduation, he could not get to university due to a staff report. Therefore, he first worked in a nationalized family brickyard, so that he could then fill his profession – worker – in his application for the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.

He gained his first acting experience while studying with Andrej Bagar at the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava, from which he transferred to the Prague Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) after two years.

He started at the Vinohrady Theater, later became a member of the newly formed Drama Club and also performed on the stage of the Prague National Theater. He excelled in the Prague Drama Club in the games Višňový sad, Strýček Váňa, Hráč, Revízor ai

In front of the camera, Abrham made his debut in the third year at DAMU in the film Strop (1961) directed by Věra Chytilová. At the same time, he played a small role in Vladimír Čech’s detective Where Alibi Is Not Enough (1961). Then came a great acting opportunity with the extensive role of a lover in Zbynek Brynych’s films Don’t Hide When It Rains (1962) and the small character Datla in the war drama Transport from Paradise (1962).

In the 1960s and 1970s, Josef Abrhám played many engaging roles, for example in the films Every Day of Courage (1964) by director Evald Schorm, Pension for Free Masters (1967), directed by Jiří Krejčík. He appeared in a film by director Jiří Sequens st. The Games of the Beautiful Dragoon (1970) or in Herz’s Girl to Kill (1975). Undoubtedly one of his unforgettable roles is the central character of the bookseller Dalibor Crow in the legendary comedy Vrchní, prchni! (1980). Abrham also showed great acting talent in the role of writer and playwright Karel Čapek in the biographical drama Man Against Destruction (1989) directed by Štěpán Skalský or as the famous Jaroslav Hašek in the film The Great Journey (1963) by director Yuri Ozerov.

He won the Czech Lion in 1993 for the best male performance of the year in Jan Hřebejko’s The Jackal Years (1993), where he once again performed one of his great comic creations. He excelled in the films All My Loved Ones (1999) directed by Matej Mináč, The Return of the Lost Paradise (1999) directed by Vojtěch Jasný, and Hřebejková’s Beauty in Trouble (2006).

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The most famous television role of the sought-after actor became the role of a flying doctor and later the head of the orthopedic department of Arnošt Blažej in the series Hospital on the Outskirts of the City (1977). The series also saw a sequel entitled Hospital on the Edge of the City after Twenty Years (2003) and Hospital on the Edge of the City – New Fates (2008). Josef Abrham played by MUDr. Blažej in both sequels, although in his own words it seemed risky for the actor to perform in one character several times. “I won’t get rid of that role anymore. I’ll be for the audience until death, Blažej,” Abrham smiled.

In 2011, the actor came to Slovakia to present Václav Havel’s film Leaving. During the interview, he was fluent in Czech into beautiful Slovak. Josef Abrhám stated that he feels at home in Slovakia.

Together with the late actress Libuša Šafránková, they have a son, Josef, who is a documentary director and directed by Abrham Sr., played himself in the hotel Hotelier from 2013.

The actor is currently living with him. In recent years, he has struggled with several health problems and support, and his wife has been his help. So it was clear that after her death, she would need someone else to take care of him. “You won’t call Pep. He is not here. His son Josef took him to Moravia and takes care of him. Pepa doesn’t come here at all, ” revealed the neighbor of Sedmička magazine these days. So the house is deserted, but there is still a photo of an actress in front of him, to whom people go to light candles.

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