Communists used to have power, now money has it
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Rudolf Průcha was born on 29 January 1949 in Písek. His father Rudolf Průcha was a car mechanic and racer, his mother Božena Průchová, née Vaňková, was a hatter, after 1948 she worked in the company Restaurants and Canteens. The parents met as widowers. His mother‘s first husband, Jiří Beneš, was arrested by the Gestapo during the war for anti-state activities and died in Pankrác prison. The Průchas began their new life in Písek. In 1952, the communist regime deprived his father of his car workshop and trade, which led to his leaving for work in Prague and the subsequent break-up of his marriage. His parents divorced when Rudolf Průch was 12 years old. In 1960, director Karel Kachyňa chose him for the film Trápení / Torment. However, he did not want to pursue acting; his real passion was sports and motoring. He graduated from grammar school, then trained as an auto mechanic at ČSAD and later, while working, graduated from an industrial school. He worked at the South Bohemian Brickworks, where he gradually worked his way up to foreman. In the 1960s he raced on the flat track, first in České Budějovice, later in Čakovice. He retired from competitions in 1978. He actively experienced the November events in 1989 at the demonstrations in Písek. After the closure of the brickworks in Písek in the early 1990s, he worked for another 17 years as an operations manager at Bramac, a company specialising in the production of roofing materials. He is married for the third time, has a son and a daughter, and is the nephew of the witness Růžena Černíková. In 2025 he was living in Písek.
