Jiřina Bohdalová: Můj život mezi slzami a smíchem – Bohdalová Jiřina (2020)

The literary event of the autumn – Jiřina Bohdalová recounts her life at nearly ninety years old. For the first time in book form. Photographs from her personal archive. How does Jiřina Bohdalová reflect on her life? What does she value in her acting career, which she began 81 years ago at the age of eight? What does she feel when she looks back at her private life, which she tried to guard so strictly? How did she experience her father's imprisonment for treason, and under what conditions did she raise her daughter Simona? Why did Jan Werich keep a protective hand over her? How many times did the StB intervene in her life – from her arrest to proposals for informing on others, to the court decision to erase her name from the lists of collaborators? Why did President Novotný thank her for not marrying him, while the president's wife wanted to organize a wedding for her with Radek Brzobohatý? Jiří Janoušek, regarding his collaboration with Jiřina Bohdalová, says: 'We tried to depict that winding life journey together and to bring it closer with photographs and documents from the family archive. I hoped that at her age, she didn't want to pretend anything and didn't need to delude herself. That she wouldn't be afraid to admit how things really were, and that she wouldn't look back at what anyone would say about it. I was not disappointed.'