Ministers of culture Oto Klempíř (for the Motorists) and Boris Šťastný (for the Motorists) proposed to the government to organize a funeral for Brejchová with state honors, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Culture Barbora Šťastná said on Monday, saying that they want to address the family with the proposal.
Jana Brejchová was already in front of the camera at the age of 13, i.e. in 1953. From the 1960s she filmed with Vojtěch Jasný, Jiří Krejčík, Evald Schorm and many others. She acted in a hundred feature and television films, for which she won numerous awards.
During her 60 years as an actress, she appeared in more than a hundred films. Her notorious role is the character of Empress Eliška in the musical Noc na Karlštejn, where she played alongside Vlastimil Brodský as Emperor Karl IV. Brodský was her life partner for a while and had a daughter Tereza with her, who followed her parents’ profession.
Her most famous films include The Wolf’s Den, Higher Principle, Every Day of Courage, The Young Man and the White Whale, The End of Solitude Berhof and Beauty in Trouble. Film academics awarded her the Czech Lion in 2010 for her outstanding contribution to Czech cinema.
She filmed in Germany, Austria and Hungary and appeared on the front pages of foreign magazines.
The singer Karel Gott was buried with state honors in the fall of 2019, and at the end of 2023, the former foreign minister and former chancellor of President Václav Havel, Karel Schwarzenberg, was also buried with state honors, whose family accepted the state’s offer for this form of final farewell shortly after his death.
A funeral with state honors involves less formality than a state funeral, which involves extremely important personalities.
date:2026-02-10 18:31:00
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