Jana Rybářová (actress)

Jana Rybářová ( 31 March 1936 – 11 February 1957) was a Czech film and stage actress.

Jana Rybářová
Born	(1936-03-31)31 March 1936 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	11 February 1957(1957-02-11) (aged 20) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1954–1956

Jana Rybářová, Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague

Discovered by film director Václav Krška, she was recognized as one of the rising stars of the 1950s despite featuring only in six films (and one student film).^[1][2][3][4] She committed suicide, in a widespread opinion, after a complicated platonic romance with married opera singer Přemysl Kočí, aggravated by various rumours.^[1][2]

In 2000 Marek Bouda shot a documentary Nelze umírat štěstím (One Should Not Die of Happiness) about her life.^[1][3] In 2001 Jana Havlíková published a book Nevyjasněná úmrtí VII (Unexplained Deaths VII) about lives and deaths of actors Jana Rybářová, Karel Höger and František Husák [cs].

Filmography

• Stříbrný vítr (1954)
• Z mého života (1955)
• V ulici je starý krám (1955)
• Dalibor (1956)
• Labakan (1956)
• Legenda o lásce (1956)
• Proti všem (1957)