Brothers wins most nominations for Czech Lion Film Awards

The Czech Film and Television Academy has announced the nominations for the 2023 Czech Lion Awards. The most nominations, 15 in total, went to the film Brothers, directed by Tomáš Mašín. The film tells the story of the Mašín brothers’ armed resistance group and their dramatic escape from communist Czechoslovakia to West Berlin. Second in line, with 12 nominations, is Matěj Chlupáček's film Dawn, a true story of intersex people in the 1930s. The sci-fi film Point of Renewal, by director Robert Hloz and the comedy She Came at Night, jointly directed by Tomáš Pavlíček and Jan Vejnar, received eight nominations each. The awards will be handed out at a gala evening at Prague’s Rudolfinum on March 9.