He had encountered film as a fifteen year old boy in Jiří Sequens’ Lead Bread (1953) in which he had a bigger part than the later star actress Jana Brejchová. Today a prominent creator of classic television series begun with bitter probes into the Czech soul (for example Honor and Glory, 1968), which earned him several years of work restriction. He could not resume work until 1974 and gradually he made a series of comedies and dramas for movie theatres and television. After November 1989 he returned to the topics of the writer and screen writer Jiří Stránský, which they had been working on together already in the sixties: the most effectively in the story from the Stalinist camp, The Boomerang (1996), the most extensively in the multivolume series Wild Country (from 1997).