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Hubač Jiří
(b. 1929)

Jiří Hubač is a Czech dramatist and television scriptwriter. He worked as a design engineer until 1955. After finishing secondary school, he became incapacitated due to a serious illness which became the impulse for him to write. He was editor of the journal Technická politika [1956-61] and from 1956, he worked as a television dramaturge. He was dismissed in 1974 for political reasons, when he became a free-lance writer. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he was very popular with audiences and critics for his plays Unripe Raspberries (adapted for the theatre as The Good Old Band), The Fall of Icarus and Migrant Birds. Hubač was known as the author of a number of television series – in the 1960s, he co-wrote the script for the popular TV series Three Blokes in a Cottage and Eliška and her Family; in the 1980s for the series Good Water, Ambulance, etc. He wrote the script for the feature films Dance Teacher (1994) and Fanny (1995). In his theatre plays, Hubač focuses on the questions of transformation in modern society. His individual plays stand on the polarity between philosophical and ethical issues in general, and the emotional world of contemporary man.

Russia, 2008, Moskow. Theatre of Cinema Actors