This is what the stars do today

In addition to the love story between Cinderella and the prince, Knut Risan’s Norwegian voice causes hundreds of thousands of Norwegians to sit in front of the television screen every Christmas morning.

The film is from 1973, but it was first shown on NRK on January 3, 1975. To this day, to say the least, a lot has happened in the actor’s life since the story premiered. in the world.

Claimed alcohol problem

Czech Libuse Safrankova was just 20 when she had her international breakthrough in ‘Three Nuts for Cinderella’, and has since starred in a number of films.

In 2002 Safrankova and her actor husband Josef Abrhám (83) sued the publisher Jiri Janousek for false allegations of alcohol abuse and violence.

The Czech magazine “Super”, of which she was editor at the time, had published a story about the actor in which they accused her of having a drinking problem and of being very violent towards her husband.

Safrankova and Abrhám won in court, but have kept a very low profile in the media ever since.

News broke last year that Safrankova had passed away, aged 68.

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Crush revealed

The prince, whose real name is Pavel Travnicek (72), could reveal in 2010 in an interview with KK that he and Libuse fell in love during the recording.

– Libuse and I were in love with each other. Let’s put it this way: Libuse Safrankova was 19 and I was 23. We were in the second year of theater school when we were offered to play in “Cinderella”. We were young and unprofessional, and Libuse was her and she is a wonderfully beautiful woman, she said at the time.

Travnicek also admitted in the interview that the two sneaked into the forest during breaks to secretly kiss.

In 1997 he founded his own theater in Prague, where he is both actor and theater director. He probably still is, and on Instagram he describes himself as “actor, host, voice actor and theater manager.”

He hid the baby’s tummy during filming

Cinderella’s stepmother is remembered for both her mean comments and her particular choice of hat. It was the actress Carola Braunbock who brought the evil stepmother to life.

Branbock was mainly active as a stage actor in Berlin, but also acted in numerous films. He was fluent in both German and Czech.

The actor died on July 4, 1978, at the age of only 54.

“Cinderella” is dead

As if having an evil stepmother wasn’t bad enough, Cinderella also had a badass stepsister, played by Daniela, named Dana, Hlaváčová (77).

In an interview with Czech journalist Jana Podskalská in 2003, Hlaváčová was able to share an amusing detail of the recording: she was pregnant and therefore had to hiding the belly under the big clothes.

After the Christmas hit was recorded, Hlaváčová worked for several years at an art school in Prague in her home country. She boasts over 40 films in her acting resume and is the sister of another Czech actress, Jana Hlaváčová.

Live a secluded life

Rolf Hoppe, who played the king, he worked until the 80s as an actorand was a well-known and popular storyteller in his hometown of Dresden.

In 2018, he passed away at the age of 88.

The Queen, or Karin Lesch (87) as she’s actually called, has a solid acting résumé in both TV and theater. Today, however, she lives a secluded life in Berlin.

Almost went blind

One of the prince’s good friends, Kamil, played by Vitezslav Jandak (75 years old), has it in addition to his acting career he has been active in politics and was Minister of Culture from 2005 to 2006 in the government of Jiri Paroubek.

The second best friend of the prince, Vitek, was played by Jaroslav Drbohlav. He has lived life as a film, stage and television actor.

In the early 1980s, he fell ill with severe diabetes, gradually becoming almost blind. So he retired from the theater in 1938, but continued to play minor roles on the screen.

In 1985, he underwent a kidney and pancreas transplant. However, his body did not accept the organs and Drbohlav died at the age of 38.

– Tabbe General!

Very few forget the constantly frustrated teacher, who blurts out the phrase “what about homework?” after the spiteful prince and his friends.

The actor behind it is called Jan Libíček who was often seen in comedies. He died suddenly during the filming of the movie “How to Drown” at the age of 42.

Popular comedian

As we know, Cinderella’s best friends were a horse and an owl, but she also had a human friend in the coachman Vincek. It was Vincek who had to take Cinderella’s three wishing nuts right in the middle of a trip and brought her the gift of the trip.

– Calling his aunt Astrid

The man behind Vincek, Vladimír Menšík, was a popular actor and comedian in the Czech Republic until his death in 1988. He was only 59 years old.

He played all the roles

Popular storyteller Knut Risan performed the feat of voicing all roles in the film.

In addition to fans of the movie Cinderella, viewers of “Journey to the Christmas Star” from 1976 also get a dose of Risan on Christmas Eve: He can be seen in the role of the king, the father of Princess Goldtop/Sonja.

He was active on the theater stage before retiring in 1998. He passed away in 2011 at the age of 81.