Biography

Petr Jarchovský was born on October 6, 1966 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is a writer and actor, known for Divided We Fall (2000), Up and Down (2004) and The Teacher (2016).

Frequently collaborates with director Jan Hřebejk.

[on Innocence (2011)] It was inspired by several different situations which in reality happened really a little differently, at different places and to different people than in the film. The situation of an underage girl accusing an adult man of sexual abuse was a real one. We decided to follow the impact of such a situation on his background, people, family relations. We wondered, for example, if it would not be interesting if the detective investigating such a complicated and serious case would be someone with whom the accused man had some personal problems.