At the age of 57, the prominent Czech photographer Petr Našic died. As the only Czech who had the opportunity to take pictures behind the scenes and the filming of the film Amadeus by Miloš Forman, he was also a court photographer for director Emir Kusturica. Our close friend informed about Našic’s death. “He was found in his apartment,” he said.
Petr Našic was born on January 29, 1964. He graduated from the Prague DAMU and continued his studies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He worked as a theater and film photographer. He has collaborated, for example, with prima ballerina Daria Klimentová, actor Vlastimil Brodský, announcer and presenter Kamila Moučková, opera singer Dagmar Pecková, fashion designer Ivana Follová, journalist Světlana Witowská and many others. According to the daily Blesk, Našic died after a rapid and severe course of the covid-19 disease.
When Forman was filming Amadeo in Prague, Našic was 18 years old, he was just graduating from high school, and he got to the American staff by accident, without a contract. “They just suffered for me there for a few days, I didn’t have any privileges,” he said at one of the film’s exhibitions.
Našic was born in 1964 and his first job was backstage in Vinohrady. He then worked in the production of a number of Prague stages, in 1997 he became an assistant professor at the Department of Scenography at DAMU. He completed a number of internships abroad and then was a freelance photographer.
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