STARÉ I NOVÉ TVÁRE EVY KRÍŽIKOVEJ. INOVATÍVNE PRVKY V TVORBE HEREČKY V ROKOCH 1968 AŽ 1989

When she was entering her middle age, the actress Eva Krížiková (1934 – 2020), known to the audiences mainly thanks to her comic talents, faced the threat of being caught up in an uncreative comedy template. The early seventies, however, brought several precious drama opportunities for her, in which she proved her talents as a character actress. This study discusses in detail some of Krížiková’s achievements in acting, by which she showed that she was a performer of a wide artistic range. The author not only characterizes her emblematic creations and the directors’ strategies in casting her in roles but focuses mainly on the innovative elements of her enactment range, which she creatively developed or even newly discovered in an era of political pressure and suppression of free creations in the last two decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia.