Jakub Koloušek

"They were all carrying something accros the border and I had forty marks and a metal five-mark coin. And I was worried about how I was going to transport it, so they wouldn't find out that I was over the currency limit. I thought about where I was going to hide it, and I ended up hiding it, as there is a ventilation shaft in the Karosa bus, a window, so there was packing and I tucked the five-mark coin under it. Customs came in, went through it, but it wasn't a big deal, and they left. And there was a guy sitting next to me with a book, his name was Milan, so I said to him, 'Hey, they didn't figure it out,' and I pulled it out. And he said that neithe did they with him. He opened the book, and there was a 200-mark note. It's just dark under the candlestick. So it used to be hid like that. And of course, when things were brought in, and they knew about the forty-mark limit, and I'm bringing a big magnetophone, it always had to be made 'donation' so that it would somehow be stamped. Customs knew that."

"They weren't bohemians. People say that about actors, but that's just some of them, some of them live a decent life. My dad was still a keen fisherman, so he still divided it among the fish. I remember learning the roles, making fun of the scripts. He's just the difference of being an actor who has a salary in the theatre and then makes a living in television. But when you're an actor who doesn't have a theatre and only has television, it's very hard. My dad always had the acting thing and film was a side job. But his steady salary was always in the theatre. I know he and Větrovec used to argue, that was interesting. He was an awfully nice guy, Uncle Windy. They were all mostly members of the Communist Party, but on the other hand, Větrovec had been in a concentration camp, he almost died, he survived. Some people just changed their minds, that's why they went to the Communists in the beginning, and then maybe they wised up, but I don't think these people harmed anybody."