Jan Werich co-founded Prague's Liberated Theatre in 1927 and spent the next decade mocking fascism through satire so sharp that Nazi officials attended performances to take notes. After the war, communists shut him down for mocking them too. He became a film actor instead, beloved by Czechs who remembered when his jokes were dangerous.
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