Libuše Šafránková dominated the hearts of the Czechs. The actress, one of the symbols not only of Czech Christmas, died on Wednesday morning. Actress Jiřina Bohdalová also remembered her.
“I don’t like to talk about it, because I’ve lived to a blessed age myself. And when I have to talk about younger people who leave, it’s hard to talk to me,” Bohdalová remarked sadly. However, she revealed how she would remember Libuška forever: “She will be our eternal, beautiful princess.”
The actor and former Minister of Culture Vítězslav Jandák will also keep the memory of Libuše Šafránková in her heart. “She was a girl who was born with a girl. And unfortunately she died as a girl now. She was a wonderful girl and a wonderful actress. There will be a big gap after her,” he said.
“I can’t get used to talking about Libuška in the past time. I’ve known her almost all my life, we’ve made a lot of films together,” Jan Hrušínský confided in a shaky voice. They appeared together, for example, in the cult Grandmother or in the film My Brother My Great Brother. “She was an extremely beautiful person with wonderful humor,” he said. “I’m sad about that,” the actor added.
The news of the sudden departure of the popular actress surprised the fans and brought some colleagues to tears. “She was immediate, she was real and she was beautiful,” said Petr Nikolayev, screenwriter and director, with a smile and tears in his eyes.
For the first time, she made herself known as Barunka in the film Grandmother. She was always left with her childish grating gaze and a soft voice. The Brno native played her life role at the age of twenty. Perhaps every little girl devoured the fairy tale Three Nuts for Cinderella on the TV screen more than once and longed to become her.
She literally loved her the whole world, but she loved only one. He and Josef Abrhám formed a couple for over 40 years, and this romance was never overshadowed by a hint of scandal. They were simply being tried.
She did not like to be the center of attention and refused to talk to the media. She kept a close eye on her privacy, so not much was known about her insidious illness. Because of her, she interrupted, for example, her performance in the TV series Nova Gympl with limited liability, where she appeared after a long break.
Although for many she will remain as indelible in her memory as Cinderella, with a plethora of characters she proved how great an actress she was. And people who knew her remember her mainly as a man with a kind heart and a good soul.
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