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Anna Kunešová January 15, 2024 3 minutes video
Do you like black and white films for viewers? So you certainly know the phenomenal representative of old women, including the most famous from Starý bělidl, the actress Terezia Brzková, who came from a nomadic acting family.
When Terezie Brzková started acting in films, she was over sixty, but she was definitely not an acting novice. She spent decades on the stage, she was even born into the stage because her father, Vilém Jelínek, owned a traveling acting troupe. The Cologne native has replaced several similar companies over the years, including one run by her second husband.
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As a representative of realistic acting, she was also successful in the stationary theater – from 1914 to 1919 she was one of the stars of the National Theater, and she also worked for many years at the City Theater in Pilsen, from where she retired at the end of the 1930s. At least that’s what she intended to do.
A grandmother in the theater and in the cinema
But in reality there were about four dozen rolls of film waiting for her. In 1938, Brzková, then sixty-three years old, played the first role in the psychological drama Magic House, which director Otakar Vávra filmed based on her own script. The plot revolves around the girl Marie, who was the only survivor of a plane crash and lost her memory. Brzková plays the deaf and senile aunt Anna Balvínová, one of the three elderly residents of the house where the main character, played by Adina Mandlová, found refuge and later love.
First famous role
Her first truly famous film role was the title role in 1940’s Babička, directed by František Čáp. Brzková created the same role two years earlier in the Pilsen Theater, which turned out to be the best possible recommendation. The director initially considered the proven actress Růžena Nasková, but recommended her to Brzková, whom she had met in the magic house.
The grandmother, played by Terezia Brzková, became the standard for kind, humane and wise old women in the films, but according to memories of the filming, this was the result of her very convincing acting skills. Because in reality, she was nasty to the actors on set and according to some claims, she didn’t even hesitate to use a rude word to get rid of them.
A somewhat intolerant communist
According to witness statements, she also had conflicts with actor Vlasta Burian, whom she accused of allegedly collaborating with the Nazis during the war. They starred together in the film Once Upon a King and never spoke a word to each other unless necessary. Burian was pardoned by the Communist Party a few years after the war, but Brzková, an ardent communist, couldn’t stand him.
Terezia Brzková’s last role on screen was an old woman who helped the main character in the fairy tale Princess with a Golden Star directed by Martin Frič. It was 1959 and the actress was 84 years old at the time. She died in 1966 at the age of ninety-one and is buried in Vyšehrad, Prague.
By the way, she took her last name Brzková after her first husband, Josef Brzka, with whom she had two daughters but was widowed. She later married Václav Zejfert a second time. Her granddaughter Ivana, née Myšková, was the wife of the writer Pavel Tigrid, with whom she emigrated after 1948.
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