Petr Čepek
Date of birth: 1940-09-16
Place of birth: Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Petr Cepek, P. Cepek, Peter Čepek
Biography
Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965. After joining with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector). Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994. Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
Movie Credits
Akce Býčí oko
1976-07-24
My Sweet Little Village
1985-08-01
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community.
Jak zničit vlastní mužstvo
1977-09-15
Křížová vazba
1990-11-01
Luděk Krejza, a tile-layer, returns from prison after serving time for manslaughter. In a retrospect
The Cat Prince
1979-09-28
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - yea
Slečna Rajka
1978-12-07
Pohádka o ebenovém koni
1979-01-01
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
1970-02-27
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beard
The Snowdrop Festival
1984-01-01
An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently h
The Three Veterans
1984-07-01
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the countr
Faust
1994-09-10
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments
The Fall of the House of Usher
1982-06-01
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to fin
Dissolved and Effused
1985-01-01
A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of o
Cutting It Short
1981-02-06
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an ado
Concert for the survivors
1977-02-25
A picture of generational confrontations between children and parents. A young and ambitious violin
Kamenný orchestr
1982-03-11
Morgiana
1972-09-15
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with
The Brave Blacksmith
1984-09-01
Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assista
Poslední zkouška
1977-04-21
The Hit
1981-03-13
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers
Pracka v láhvi
1979-03-10
An ambitious girl is hired by a group of thieves as a maid in the apartment of a famous actress. The
Pušky paní Carrarové
1963-04-27
Milenci z kiosku
1963-05-27
Není doba pro zupáky aneb Patálie seržanta Kinga
1963-06-10
Hordubal
1980-04-25
After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He i
The End of Agent W4C
1967-10-06
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in
Skřivánčí ticho
1990-05-01
The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. Hi
Mystery of the Puzzle
1993-05-13
A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead
Oil Lamps
1971-11-05
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin
The Valley of the Bees
1968-05-17
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by
Hotel for Strangers
1967-03-24
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been en
Bitva na kopci
1987-11-28
Adelheid
1970-02-06
In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German famil
Prince Bajaja
1971-12-17
The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out
The Damned House of Hajn
1989-09-01
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries
Návraty
1972-09-01
A psychological film about the sense of self-fulfillment of a divorced couple over 30 who feel that
Smích se lepí na paty
1987-06-01
Sixty-year-old Joska Platejz, a peculiar jack of all trades, lives in a cottage in the Giant Mountai
The Death of Black King
1972-03-31
Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attent
Najatý klaun
1980-01-01
Ferat Vampire
1982-05-28
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer F
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
1983-10-01
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrma
Jak přijít o život
1974-01-01
Night Riders
1981-06-26
Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by t
Landscape with Furniture
1987-03-01
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also g
Cesta na jihozápad
1989-11-01
Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story
Škaredá dědina
1975-11-21
The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slo
Cestující se připraví k odletu
1972-12-13
Kdo se bojí, utíká
1987-05-01
In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children i
Diagnóza smrti
1979-12-14
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Hon
Putování Jana Amose
1983-10-01
The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the Wh
Společnost s ručením omezeným
1983-04-30
Mark of Cain
1989-11-27
In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance
Muka obraznosti
1990-03-01
The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s
Looking Back
1969-01-03
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful n
Tři v tom
1981-11-16
How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high tim
Past na kachnu
1978-12-29
Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the
Revizor
1971-01-01
A recording of a theatre production directed by Jan Kačer from 1967.
Polka viva
1984-01-01
The Motive for Murder
1975-04-04
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", K
The Elementary School
1991-08-08
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In
Granny
1971-10-08
A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.
The Secret of Steel City
1979-05-11
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna a
Zatmění všech sluncí
1987-09-27
The TV play tells the story of a woman who committed financial fraud at work. But she did not approp
Nudity
1990-12-01
Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for
Extended Time
1985-10-01
The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, il
Šťastlivec Sulla
1992-06-02
Magician
1988-01-29
A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the fi
Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
1978-03-12
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its
Všichni musí být v pyžamu
1985-09-01
The hero, rushing from one misfortune to another, is former accountant Řehoř Maršíček, who after a h
Mandragora
1971-01-01
Aesop
1970-06-28
This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people wit
Nightmares
1970-01-01
Singer and actress Naďa Urbánková, against the background of vampires and ghostly realities.
A Touch of a Butterfly
1972-01-01
A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to
Zrcadlo nenávisti
1988-06-25
Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who li
Rambling Engelbert
1973-01-01
Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical
Sluníčko na houpačce
1981-12-27
Editor Julie and artist Vojta go to a children's home in Sumava to pick up a nine-year-old boy, Matě
Etudes for Piano Students
1987-04-01
Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to e
Loupežnická pohádka
1981-07-12
Dobří holubi se vracejí
1989-03-01
The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken r
Súkromná vojna
1978-05-05
Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short
Svědek umírajícího času
1991-02-01
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), d
Byli jsme to my?
1991-03-01
The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose mem
Ráno budeme moudřejší
1977-12-23
Marie, an active modern woman at work, has resigned herself to everything after a disappointment in
Jasnovidec
1981-10-10
The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who l
Ráno pod mesiacom
1979-01-01
An intimate family story full of dramatic relationships and the desire for eternal values such as
Křídlovka pro Majoránka
1986-09-04
Fanynka
1987-01-01
Mít někoho do deště
1986-12-25
Revue za šest korun
1985-12-14
Věčný Faust
1985-12-22
Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
1993-01-07
Against the petty, which places its own glory above honest work and honest human relationships. Čape
Nine Circles of Hell
1988-07-01
As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a C
Tulakóna
1986-01-01
Thanks for Every New Morning
1994-11-03
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the f
Ohňostroj v Aspern
1989-01-12
Lhát se nemá, princezno!
1991-06-09
Sokratův podzim
1991-09-25
Portrait
1982-04-25
On their tenth wedding anniversary, painter František and his wife Jarmila return to their isolated