His real accomplishment
is not his achievement, but surviving all the smoking.
The amount of smoking made me to gasp for fresh air just by watching the movie, disgusting
He has sadly died in 2009 of lung cancer. To his "defence": everybody, nearly virtually everybody, at least men, smoked in the Eastern Bloc in that era. Another example - Czech President Vaclav Havel, also a heavy smoker and later lung cancer victim.
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