Ian Willoughby

The 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will open in August with Zátopek, David Ondříček’s much-anticipated biopic of the running legend.

Insurance companies estimate the damage caused by a tornado last Thursday at CZK 3.6 billion. Meanwhile, businesses hit by the disaster can get special government aid.

Road construction projects in the Czech Republic are facing problems as builders complain that essential materials are increasingly hard to source, Czech Television said.

Remember when a doll of the Czech cartoon character Krtek, or Little Mole, left the Earth’s atmosphere on a Space Shuttle? The person to thank for that is Indira Feustel.

The Czech Republic have caused the biggest upset so far at the European Football Championship, after knocking the Netherlands out on Sunday evening. 

Dancer, choreographer and teacher Tereza Ondrová is a leading figure in Czech contemporary dance, perhaps best-known for a series of fascinating collaborations. 

The death of a Romany in Teplice on Saturday has been making headlines, after video emerged of police restraining him shortly before he reportedly died in an ambulance.

In a bid to reach even more people, the government is set to launch “walk-in” vaccinations in under a month’s time, while the over 12s will be able to register from July 1.

An era spanning over a century came to a close in the Czech Republic on Thursday with the removal of the country’s last telephone booth still containing a phone.

Pavel Strnad is a top Czech film producer. The company he co-founded in the mid-1990s, Negativ Film, has been behind many important Czech titles since then.