The director asked if anyone was interested in attending film school
Vojtěch Kunčík was born on 12 November 1935 in Nivnice. He worked in film all his life as a producer on Karel Zeman‘s iconic films The Road to Prehistory and The Invention of Destruction. He gained his film knowledge at the Higher Vocational School in Čimelice. His father worked as a carpenter, but after February 1948, he was labelled a tradesman, and his planer was confiscated by the militia. After finishing school, Vojtěch Kunčík worked at the Short Film Prague, then he was transferred to the Film Studios in Gottwaldov. He completed his military service in Slovakia and then returned to the Film Studios. He also collaborated with the Bratislava production, for example, on Večerníček, the series Spadla z oblakov, and the films Kapitán Korda and Sirius. He also worked in Moscow on the Czechoslovak-Soviet comedy film Strangers Are Allowed Entry. In the 1990s, he taught at a private secondary film school in Zlín. At the time of filming in 2023, he lived in Otrokovice.