- Radim Špaček was born in 1973 in Ostrava. When he was five he moved with his parents to Prague and started to play minor parts in radio plays and TV dramas. As a high school he chose Prague conservatory, acting department. Czech director Karel Kachyňa offered him main part in his feature film "Little Girls and Crazy Guys" (_Blazni a devcatka (1989)_, smaller parts in "Vojtech, Called the Orphan" (Vojtech, receny sirotek (1990) and TV film Jan (1992). After school-leaving exam in 1991 he worked as an assistant of director at few foreign movies shot in Prague (Swing Kids, Il Giovanni Mussolini, Catherine Courage), when one year later he was accepted to study directing on Prague Film Academy (FAMU). After he finished his first year he went to Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina under siege (1993). In production of Cestmir Kopecky (Czech Television) he shot his first film there - a semi-documentary story called "Young Men Discovering the World" (Mladí muzi poznávají svet (1997)) about war life of young people living there. Film was chosen for the Karlovy Vary IFF competition and got a Film Clubs International Association Award and an Ecumenical Jury Award as well as a special mention on Alpe Adria Festival in Trieste (1996). He continued his studies and for two years worked as a speaker and director of alternative music programme in Czech TV called 60 (1996). He finished his studies with his second film "Rapid Eye Movement" (Rychlé pohyby ocí (1998)). Immediately after that he has got a German foundation's DAAD scholarship for 6 months in Berlin, where he wrote a screenplay "Good Intention" (Dobre umysly). He also prepares two documentaries - "War Odyssey" (Valecna odysea), view on contemporary wars all over the world and "Sleepless Nights" (Bezesne noci), following Czech TV crisis in winter 2000/1.
- IMDb mini biography by: paèek, Radim
- Brother of Daria Špačková.
- Presenter of the TV music program "60".
- Son of Ladislav Spacek.
- [on title meaning of Walking Too Fast (2009)] The Czech title is Pouta - handcuffs. It's also a play on words because it can refer to relationships, binds, ties. But there are thousands of handcuff-relationship names in foreign movies, so we wanted to avoid that. Walking Too Fast - the idea came from one of Ondrej Stindl's friends - is how Antonín [the main character] sees his life.
- [on relativity of success of Walking Too Fast (2009)] I think it's quite logical that our film did not draw large audiences. It's long, sad and depressing; it really is a description of a secret policeman's mad mind in the 1980s. I'm not surprised this kind of film is not attractive for most people. They prefer to go watch movies with young people, comedies and so on. But the fact that we won those Czech Lions and also the Czech film critics' award, that tells me that we didn't fail, that we did a good job and the film is good. It also goes in the theaters again in many copies, and the five Czech Lions are a good recommendation.
- [on casting of Ondřej Malý in Walking Too Fast (2009)] I was with him in a film, called Mrtvej brouk (1998), in the mid 1990s. He played a lunatic, and when I saw him, I thought that he was real, that he wasn't an actor. But my sister, who is a producer, told me he was an actor. So ten years later, when I saw his photo when we were working on the casting, I said, 'Oh yes, I remember this guy, I have to get him to come to the auditions.' When he left, all us - the screenplay writer, me and the producer - we knew that was him. Maybe not for the lead, but we knew we wanted him in the movie. And then we slowly found out that Antonín, the main character, would fit him just great.
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