Cinema of the Czech Republic
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Czech cinema comprises the cinema of Czech Republic as well as cinema while this country was a part of other countries.
Quick Facts No. of screens, • Per capita ...
Cinema of the Czech Republic | |
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No. of screens | 668 (2011)[1] |
• Per capita | 6.9 per 100,000 (2011)[1] |
Main distributors | Bontonfilm 34.0% Falcon 31.0% Warner Bros. 14.0%[2] |
Produced feature films (2011)[3] | |
Fictional | 23 (51.1%) |
Animated | 2 (4.4%) |
Documentary | 20 (44.4%) |
Number of admissions (2011)[4] | |
Total | 10,789,760 |
• Per capita | 1.06 (2012)[5] |
National films | 3,077,585 (28.5%) |
Gross box office (2011)[4] | |
Total | CZK 1.21 billion |
National films | CZK 301 million (24.9%) |
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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne is considered the most internationally successful Czech film ever made; soon after its release it was distributed to 72 countries and received widespread attention.[6] Domestically, the most viewed Czech film ever is The Proud Princess from 1952, which was seen by 8,222,695 people.[7][8]
Marketa Lazarová was voted the all-time best Czech movie in a 1998 poll of Czech film critics and publicists.[9][10]