He hated school. In class, he stared out the window, just like in the interrogation
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Petr Šulák was born in Krnov on 14 June 1960 to Irena Šuláková and Pavel Šulák. He spent the first six years of his life in Bohušov the Osoblaha area to where his paternal grandparents had moved from Wallachia after the war. He first went to school in Ostrava. He suffered from dyslexia, faced issues at school and acquired a dislike for teachers and school. He did not finish his printer apprenticeship in Olomouc. During his military service in Tachov, he rehearsed for the 1980 Spartakiad. Back from the military, he switched various jobs. His longest stint was as a chimney sweep. In 1988 he met dissident Petr Pospíchal from Brno. He signed Charter 77, distributed the Infoch samizdat and worked with the East European Information Agency. He was regularly detained and interrogated by state security. He faced threats, intimidation and pressure to cooperate. In the early 1990s he left Ostrava for Šumava. He received a certificate of participation in the 3rd Resistance. He lived as a retiree in Volary at the time of filming in 2025.
