One year after the sudden death of Milan Lasica: Unique PHOTO from the family album – Topky.sk

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Milan Lasica was born on February 3, 1940 in Zvolen in the family of a bank official, but soon the family moved to Bratislava, where he spent most of his life. After graduating from the Bratislava grammar school, he decided to study dramaturgy and theater science at the University of Performing Arts (VŠMU), which he graduated in 1962. It was during his studies at the VŠMU that the authorial collaboration of the inseparable couple Lasica – Satinský began. In the years 1959-1960, as university students, they performed their comic author’s dialogues during the so-called Youth afternoons in the Tatra Revue cabaret. With their approach to humor, they followed the pair of Czech comedians Jan Werich and Jíří Voskovec. They came to the audience with a new, original speech and text in which they moved banal life situations to an absurd position. In the years 1964 – 1967, Milan Lasica worked as a dramaturg of Czechoslovak Television in Bratislava. From 1967 to 1970, he worked in Bratislava’s Divadlo na Korza, where he profiled himself in a comedy-cabaret duo with Július Satinský. One of their most outstanding performances was the play Not Waiting for Godot (1968), in which they reacted to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Photo gallery (6) Source: FS Barrandov At that time, the pair L + S also appeared on television screens in the programs Evenings for Two (1964), New Year’s Eve on the Danube (1966), or the program Boomerang (1968). After the start of normalization in 1970, the Korze Theater was closed and Lasic and Satinský were banned from performing in Slovakia, so they went to the Czech Republic and worked in the Večerní Brno theater in 1970-1971. After returning to Slovakia, they performed at the New Stage in Bratislava. They appeared on the screen again only in the well-known New Year’s Eve program from 1977, which was presented by Vladimír Menšík. Poetic and cabaret theater Studio S was founded in 1982 in the premises of the famous Tatra Revue. Here again L+S began to act as a pair. They created several now legendary shows of cabaret plays such as Day of Joy, Our Friend René and Jubilee. The musician and actor Jaroslav Filip also successfully assisted them in the performances. He also collaborated with them in the late 1970s and early 1980s on the successful cabaret TV project Who’s Behind the Door. Photo gallery (6) Milan Lasica and Július Satinský
Source: SITA Milan Lasica also presented himself as an actor in dramatic works. For example, in Studio S, which changed to Studio L+S in April 1999 and was owned by Milan Lasica, Slawomir Mrožek’s play Emigranti was a huge success, and together with Satinský, he also excelled in Milan Kundera’s play Jakub and his master. Milan Lasica made his debut in front of the film camera in the film Vvi možno svetni in 1961. He gradually created many characters in successful films such as Sweet Games of the Last Summer (1969), Paris Life, Nekonečná nyvystupovát (both 1978), Bulldogs and Cherries (1981), Heartfelt greetings from the globe (1982), Three veterans, Jožko Púčik and his career (both 1983), Let’s run, already going! (1986), Freckled Max and the Ghosts (1987), Dear Friends, Yes (1989), Saturnine (1994), Traps, Traps, Traps (1998), Hanele (1999), I Served the King of England (2006), The Hostage (2014) ) or Agáva (2016). Milan Lasica also demonstrated his exceptional talent as a lyricist. Together with Jaro Filip, he signed the legendary albums There were eleven of us (1981), S vetrom o pretéky (1982), My (1987). He also collaborated with Miro Žbirek, Richard Müller and Peter Lipa as a text writer. He also introduced himself as a singer, for example he sang three albums of old evergreens with the musical group Bratislava Hot Serenaders (Ja som optimista 2001, Celý svet sa mračí 2002, Kač zastal čas 2011). Photo gallery (6) Source: TASR Milan Lasica was also extremely active in the literary field. He independently published three collections of texts, There were eleven of us (1985), Songs about nothing (1989) and Songs and other texts (2003). Together with Satinský, they published, for example, the books Waiting for Godot (a collection of skits and short stories in 1968) or Three Plays (1988). Together with Tomáš Janovic, he wrote the book Zoči-voči. With Ján Štrasser, he participated in the book Lenže ja som iba komik (2005). Under the name Bodka (2007) and Bodka II. (2009) Faetons were published in Lasic’s book. Since 2005, Milan Lasica has been the president of the International Film Festival (MFF) Art Film Fest Trenčianske Teplice (currently Art Film Fest Košice). In 2014, he was awarded the Karel Čapek Award. Milan Lasica, who was married to actress, diplomat and politician Magda Vášáryová, won several awards for his all-round excellent artistic activity. Among them the Crystal Wing for a lifetime’s work (1997 together with J. Satinský), the Medal for Merit I degree from the President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel (2003), the Pribin Cross II from the President of the SR Ivan Gašparovič. class for significant merits in the field of culture (2005), the Dominik Tatarka Award for the book Bodka (2008), as well as the European Trebbia Award for creative activity (2014). Photo gallery (6) Source: Profimedia Milan Lasica died suddenly on July 18, 2021 during a concert with the Bratislava Hot Serenaders. Shortly before the 1st anniversary of his death, his daughter Hana remembered him on the social network. She published a photo from the time when she and her sister Žofia were still small and their well-known father was in charge of them at that moment. “Parenting according to my father,” she wrote on a photo from the family album. Photo gallery (6) Source: Instagram HL