Vladimír Valenta: Vladimír Valenta. Actor: The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In Czechoslovakia he ran afoul of both the Nazis and the Communists who subsequently replaced the Nazis in the postwar period, and spent seven years in prison and labor camps, four of them in a uranium mine labor camp. He was one of Czechosolvakia's leading Film and TV actors and writers when the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. Valenta fled to Canada...
Known For: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Mayor), Closely Watched Trains (Prednosta stanice), One Man (Producer(as Vladimir Valenta)), Touha (Writer)