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Jaroslav Papoušek

Died in 1995

Jaroslav Papoušek was born on 12 April 1929 in Velký Bočkov, in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, and grew up in Čimelice, in South Bohemia. A harmonica tuner before studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, from which he graduated in 1957, he was a sculptor, painter and caricaturist. One of his stories attracted Miloš Forman, with whom and Ivan Passer he wrote the trio's films; he moved into directing in 1968, then returned to painting and died in Čimelice on 17 August 1995.

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