How to pull out a whale stool: Energetic schoolboy Vašek (Tomáš Holý) tries to be his mother get a guy. For winter recreation, he looks for the sympathetic Luboš (František Němec). What Vašek doesn’t know yet is that Luboš has known his mother for a long time… You can watch the famous film by Marie Poledňáková today at 20:10 on ČT1.
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Although he acted in several films, it did not bring him a financial cushion. At the same time, everyone thought that he was some kind of rich man. He made money from the film, but not enough. For example, Vladimír Menšík he took 1,200 CZK per day of filming, Tomáš only a tenth. Therefore, he received a maximum of two thousand for the entire film. However, he never spent the fee, he hid the money with Grandma Boženka.
Television offered better financial conditions. There he received roughly 14,000, which would correspond to 140,000 crowns today. This is the amount that, for example, actors from well-known series such as Surgery in the rose garden.
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That Tomáš Holý was direct and fearless since childhood, the fact proves that during the filming of the movie Holiday for a Dog (1980) he saved the life of Monica Kvasničková. His heroic act it didn’t come to light until 36 years after filming. Kvasničková stated for lightning, that she was only seconds away from death. During filming in Karlštejn, she went swimming with her hands above her head. Her foot slipped and she fell into the water.
Tomáš did not hesitate and jumped after her. When they got back to the set, the director wondered why he was wet. He told her he jumped to get the dog. He didn’t want Monika to have any problems because of it. Tomáš was supposed to appear to Kvasničková in a dream several years after his death. He only called her. In the morning she found out that her grandfather died.
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No one believed the news about Tomáš Holé’s death
Tomáš Holé’s life ended tragically on March 8, 1990, he was 21 years old. He was wrecking a friend’s red Škoda 120. Because of the ice, he couldn’t handle a sharp turn and crashed head-on into a tree. He was unconscious, with a broken leg and a seat belt cut in his chest. The friend who found him immediately started first aid. There was plastic in the car to try to stop the bleeding. At that moment, another of Tomáš’s friends was passing by. They loaded him together into a car and took him to the hospital in Nové Bor. There he succumbed to his injuries.
No one believed the news of his death. When the police came to see his mother, she literally shooed them away from the door. She thought it was another of Tomáš’s stupid jokes. Unfortunately, this time it was different. However, no one will ever take away the legacy he left behind. It was not for nothing that the jury at the Monte-Carlo Film Festival called him in 1979 the best child actor since Shirley Temple.
Sources of information:
Wikipedia.org: Tomas Holy
Deník.cz: Tomáš Holý – A star extinguished by an accident. He got into acting by accident
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