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Zorka Janu |
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9th July 1921 |
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Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
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Zorka Janů (1921–1946), a Czech film actress, was the younger sister of the legendary cinema star LÃda Baarová. When she was 12 years old, she appeared in the movie Madla z cihelny (Brickmaker's daughter, 1933) alongside her sister who played the principal role. She studied the dramatic art at the Academy of Prague.
The Virgins' Club
After the release of the Cech panen kutnohorských (The Virgins' Club) in 1938, Zorka captured the imagination of the movie-going public. In 1939 she got her first big role in the FrantiÅ¡ek Čáp and Václav KrÅ¡ka's movie Fiery Summer (Ohnivé léto), about a love triangle between Rose (LÃda Baarová), Clare (Janů) and a young man, Å imon, who is loved by Clare, but loves Rose. Clare attempts suicide by jumping into the river. Two young men in love with her throw themselves into the torrent to save her, but one of them drowns. During the shooting of the Fiery Summer, Zorka Janů fell in love with the love of her life, the writer and poet FrantiÅ¡ek KožÃÅ¡ek.
The war years
In the 1940s Zorka Janů appeared in seven movies, among them Baron Münchhausen and Rubens’ Caper. She played a leading role in the movie ÄŒekanky (Ladies in Waiting, 1940) about an aging count tho forbids his female staff to marry. The movie name ÄŒekanky is a word play on the Czech word ćekat which is the root of the name of a flower and to wait. Her last movie appearance was as Helen in Jiřà SlavÃÄek’s Boys and the River (1944).
Trials and tribulations
After Germany lost the war in 1945, her sister LÃda Baarová (mistress of Joseph Goebbels) was imprisoned and her mother died during the interrogation by the Czech retribution tribunal. Zorka Janů was expelled from work, ostracized, and committed suicide. The tragic story of Zorka Janů was told by Adam Georgiev in his (1998) book DenÃk sestry LÃdy Baarové (Diary of LÃda Baarová’s Sister).
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