Actor Vladimír Brabec dies at the age of 83

Actor Vladimír Brabec, who played the lead role in the notorious communist era propaganda series called "The 30 cases of Major Zeman", has died at the age of 83. Brabec has played hundreds of other characters but he has always been associated with the role of the detective fighting subversive and criminal elements in communist Czechoslovakia. The series was shot in the 1970s and still shown on Czech tv channels from time to time.