5 interesting facts about the cult series We all have to go to school, which you certainly did not know! | For women

1. The representative of the unpopular teacher had a really hard time with the viewers. Why?

The unpopular burned-out teacher, played by actress Gabriela Vránová, had such an impact on the audience that, according to the director, her representative should be afraid to appear on the street and prefer to go to the channels. However, the author of the script, Markéta Zinnerová, did not go far for the subject, she experienced these problems with her son Pavle’s class teacher. Gabriela Vránová then recalled that a female viewer called her to be nicer to Jirka Oliva, who was played by Milan Šimáček. In vain, the lady explained that she could not help but influence this herself and that she should rather turn to the screenwriter or director with complaints.

However, during the first reading of the script, she experienced tense moments when she wondered whether she should even accept such a role, since she comes from a family of teachers and values ​​this profession. In the end, she was pleased when, after the series aired, she heard from a lot of burnt-out teachers who had to leave education because of nerves.

2. Tomáš Holý refused the role. How were the other child actors?

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The children really played a lot in the series, and the director Ludvík Ráža had a lot to do to keep the wild flock in check and each of the children did what was asked of him. Tomáš Holý was originally supposed to play Luboš Oliva, but he had already ended his film career and refused the role. He was therefore played by Zbyněk Honzík, who was seventeen at the time, as well as Dana Vávrová, the representative of Monika. Another eighth grader, Jana Janotová, was played by then sixteen-year-old Michaela Kudláčková, and eighth grader Michael Hofbauer, who was already twenty years old, was also older. The little freshman Jirka Oliva was actually the eleven-year-old actor Milan Šimáček, whose hair was curled to make him look cuter. Regina Zahradníková-Řandová was seventeen years old at the time. So they were all much older and played younger students.

3. How pensioners have become a fashion trend

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Do you remember the scene when Jindra’s parents were reported and subsequently checked by the Department of Social Welfare? That’s when Jindra, played by the actor Martin Krb, brother of the famous actress Ljuba Krbová, defends himself by saying that he doesn’t wear pensioners because his mother won’t buy him proper new shoes, but because he wants to and because he likes it. Back in the 1980s, these unpopular cheap retiree shoes took over from the recession among young people and even became a fashion trend among the youth section for a while.

4. Why was the script rewritten? There were sad reasons behind it!

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Scripts are continuously changed and rewritten during filming quite routinely. Unfortunately, sometimes there are sad reasons behind this. Towards the end of the filming of the series We all have to go to school, the representative of the teacher Zmatlíková, actress Dana Medřická, died. Director Ludvík Ráža wanted to keep already filmed scenes in the series, so screenwriter Markéta Zinnerová had to rewrite some future scenes. As she herself recalled, she cried while rewriting the script and cutting scenes with Dana Medřická. Finally, thanks to the editors, the character of Eliška Zmatlíková remained in ten parts of the series.

But the script was also rewritten for more banal reasons, for example because of Michaela Kudláčková in the role of Barča, who was small, while the original actress was supposed to be tall. In total, Markéta Zinnerová worked on the script for a year and eight months and it had one thousand three hundred pages. Before writing it, she mapped the situation in education for about half a year and drew a lot from her own life, for example the popular teacher Karfík, played by Miroslav Vladyka, was a character reminiscent of her matricologist from the Liberec grammar school.

5. Who was sick, who was eternally drunk and which actress was pregnant?

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Actor Vladimír Menšík had health problems during the filming of the series, and was taken straight from the hospital to the filming. The actor Karel Augusta could not fully explain his problem with alcohol, who was not able to concentrate and annoyed the director. Therefore, some scenes had to be filmed repeatedly. The baby was born to Veronika Žilková, who gave birth to a daughter shortly after the series aired. She experienced humorous situations when spectators stopped her with her stroller and asked her about the baby’s father, Miroslav Vladyka. However, this partner was only the serial one, and the actress herself admitted that some love scenes were not to her liking, for example, she was embarrassed under a waterfall in a swimsuit. She earned thirteen thousand crowns for her role as Jana.