Havel film receives premiere in Prague

A new film about the late Czech dissident-turned-president Václav Havel is set for a gala premiere in Prague on Tuesday evening. The movie, simply entitled Havel, stars Viktor Dvořák as the democracy leader and Anna Geislerová as his wife Olga Havlová.

The biopic, directed by Slávek Horák, is one of the first new Czech films to be released since the coronavirus crisis began and will enter cinema distribution on Thursday.