The war in Ukraine aroused a huge number of Czechs to immediately start helping the families most affected by the war. While they have already sent more than a billion crowns to charity accounts and donate a huge amount of necessary items, Czech artists are trying to use their popularity to inspire other fellow citizens to charity and open their homes to refugees who have lost their homes.
The Svěrák family of filmmakers does so extremely impressively. At the instigation of the Ministry of the Interior, she made an emotional appeal, which includes a letter that Zdeněk Svěrák sends to the hero of the world-famous film Kolja years later. In it, he reminds him, as he once told him, that the Russians are stealing suitcases and foreign territory and complaining to him: “Unfortunately it is true. You shoot at peaceful cities and drive people out of their homes. Now a little boy like you is standing outside our door, he came from Ukraine this morning only with his mother. Can we leave them there? ”
It’s crazy
Zdeněk Svěrák makes no secret of the fact that they shot the spot (together with his son Jan, who directed Kolja and won an Oscar for it, and his grandson František), because he proves their opinion on the war: “It’s a madness that doesn’t belong in the twenty-first century.” However, it was not just this strong appeal to human solidarity. At the same time, the Svěrák decided to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in their house.
Jan sacrificed his study to this plan, and after evicting computers and other things during the night, he turned it into a cozy living room, for example for a mother with children. At the same time, he still has no idea who will end up in this room. In a report broadcast by Czech Television, he even showed the key to the house, decorated with an orange figure of Kuky. At the same time, he mentioned that another office is being prepared for the same purpose.
That would be beautiful in the world
Although it could be expected that thanks to the considerable popularity that the 85-year-old actor and screenwriter enjoys today, the impressive spot will provoke a great wave of emotions, Zdeněk Svěrák himself may be surprised by how great it is. Viewers who saw him thank him, admit that he touched them and cried them, and above all respond to his request that they open their homes to the Ukrainians. “Exactly, we’ll open,” promises, for example, Lýdia’s mother on Zdeněk Svěrák on Facebook.
Sources: author’s text, Czech television
