Famous People with Name Svatopluk

Svatopluk Turek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Svatopluk Turek: was a Czech novelist, known under pen name T. Svatopluk.After studying arts at the university he worked as graphics designer in Bata company in Zlín. He is most know for his book Botostroj (The Shoe Machine) where he depicted the company as an inhuman mechanism destroying lives of people and its boss Tomáš Bata as a dictator. The novel is written in very fast, expressive language.

Svatopluk Pluskal            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Svatopluk Pluskal: was a Czechoslovak footballer and holder of a silver medal from the World Cup in Chile in 1962.

Svatopluk Havelka            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Svatopluk Havelka: He studied composition privately with Karel Boleslav Jirák from 1945 to 47, while a student of musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University under Josef Hutter and Antonín Sychra.[1] Havelka subsequently became a member of the music department of Czechoslovak Radio in Ostrava. At the same time he was the founder and artistic director of the NOTA Ensemble (1949 - 1950).[1] For the next four years he was an instructor and composer with the Army Art Ensemble.[1] Since 1954 he devoted himself to composing. Havelka died on February 24 2009 in Prague.

Svatopluk Innemann            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Svatopluk Innemann: was a Czech film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and actor. Innemann, brother of Miroslav Innemann and Liduška Innemannová, was one of the pioneers of Czech cinema.The 1932 film Pred maturitou, which he made in cooperation with the Czech writer Vladislav Vancura, is considered to be his second creative peak. In 1933, Inneman directed the crime film Vražda v Ostrovní ulici, the first film to be made in the Barrandov Studios. His film career ended in 1937 with Švanda dudák

Svatopluk Skarupský            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Svatopluk Skarupský: is a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He was disqualified in the final of the C-2 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City for reasons not disclosed in the official report.