🎬 Vera 68 (2012)

Václav Havel (1936–2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, and statesman. Known for absurdist plays such as The Garden Party, he became a key figure of resistance to communist rule. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic.

Věra Čáslavská was a Czech artistic gymnast and one of the most decorated Olympic athletes in history. She won seven Olympic gold medals and four silver medals between 1960 and 1968. She was also known for her civic courage — signing the Two Thousand Words manifesto in 1968 and silently protesting the Soviet invasion …

Jan Potměšil (1966-2026) was a Czech film and theatre actor who rose to fame in 1987 with the film Bony a klid. He took an active part in the Velvet Revolution, and on one of those trips he suffered a severe spinal injury in a car accident that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He returned to acting w…

Martin Vačkář (born 1947, Prague) is a Czech journalist, screenwriter, and Japanese interpreter-translator. The son of composer Dalibor C. Vačkář, he studied Japanese and English at Charles University, with stints in Tokyo and Zurich. He wrote about music for the daily Lidová demokracie, then worked as a freelance pub…

Dana Zátopková is a Czech track and field athlete who won Olympic gold in the javelin throw at the 1952 Helsinki Games - on the same day her husband Emil Zátopek won the 5,000 metres. She later became European champion in 1958 and remains one of the most celebrated figures in Czechoslovak sporting history.

Olga Sommerová is a Czech documentary filmmaker known for her portrait films about significant figures from Czech culture and history. Her film Věra 68 follows the life of gymnast Věra Čáslavská as a reflection of Czechoslovak 20th-century history. Over her career she has made dozens of documentaries and is one of the…