---
title: 'Jára Cimrman Lying (1983)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ladislav Smoljak'
released: '1983-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 81
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/jara-cimrman-lying-1983'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085748/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Jára Cimrman Lying (1983)

1983 · 81 min · Comedy, History · Czechoslovakia


## Synopsis

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping is a 1983 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak. It is a biopic of the fictional Czech national hero Jára Cimrman, who is portrayed by one of his inventors, Zdeněk Svěrák.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ladislav Smoljak](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-smoljak)
- **Screenplay:** [Ladislav Smoljak](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-smoljak), [Zdeněk Svěrák](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-sverak)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Petr Skoumal](https://cinepixo.com/people/petr-skoumal)
- **Director of Photography:** [Richard Valenta](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-valenta)
- **Editor:** [Jiří Brožek](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-brozek)

## Cast

- [Jaromír Kučera](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaromir-kucera) as Jaroslav Vrchlický
- [Filip Švarc](https://cinepixo.com/people/filip-svarc) as Jára Cimrman
- [Stanislav Šimek](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanislav-simek)
- [Jindřich Sejk](https://cinepixo.com/people/jindrich-sejk)
- [Jiří Schmiedt](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-schmiedt)
- [Josef Kubíček](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-kubicek)
- [Valerie Kaplanová](https://cinepixo.com/people/valerie-kaplanova) as Jára Cimrman
- [Vladimír Svitáček](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-svitacek)
- [Nina Divíšková](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-diviskova) as Rosa Holub
- [Petr Brukner](https://cinepixo.com/people/petr-brukner) as Viktor Kaplan
- [Jana Viščaková](https://cinepixo.com/people/jana-viscakova)
- [Leoš Suchařípa](https://cinepixo.com/people/leos-sucharipa) as Gustave Eiffel
- [Marie Drahokoupilová](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-drahokoupilova)
- [Petr Kostka](https://cinepixo.com/people/petr-kostka) as Josef Mánes
- [Zdeněk Skalický](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-skalicky)

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