Jiří Sovák and drunken killing: He disinherited his son Schmitzer for the same

Nobody really understands that. “I’m in shock! Why Jirka Sovák resented his son Schmitzerthat he caused the death behind the wheel, when he actually did something similar? I can’t believe it at all” Jaroslava Obermaierová shook her head in disbelief (78) after she learned from Blesk last year – like everyone else – about the perfectly secret police accusation of Sovák from 1971.

Materials about the suspected participation of Czech film icon Jiří Sovák in the tragic accident of a Saab car with a pedestrian Vojtěch S. in Mníšek pod Brdy lay unnoticed in the Security Forces Archive until now.

Sovák’s case was kept secret for 52 years. Everyone knew about Schmitzer’s death, which happened in 1976, and even the sparrows on the roof were chirping about it. At that time, the actor was a member of the Drama Studio in Ústí nad Labem.

And as he himself admitted, he had a tendency to drink alcohol excessively. In order not to »get drunk«, he went boxing regularly. But one day boxing didn’t help him. He got behind the wheel at night and on his way from the theater bar caused a traffic accident in which a man died.

At that time, it was said that it was the pedestrian’s fault, however, the police found alcohol in the driver’s blood, so Schmitzer went to sit. His originally three-year sentence was reduced for good behavior, so he spent only a year and a half in the prison in Vinařice near Kladno.

Widow Sovakova: He did several things

Schmitzer, who is Sovák’s son from his first marriage and whose mother’s name was Blanka, allegedly blamed his father for not giving him a helping hand.

But his stepmother Anna Sováková (†82) saw it differently. “Sovák, on the other hand, helped him a lot!