2019 was another record-breaking year for Czech movie theatres, and the charts were topped by a home-grown rom-com. While Us imports – most recently various superhero franchises and blockbusters – and films for children used to be commercial sure-fire hits at the Czech box office, a Czech first-time director trounced them all in 2019. The mainstream romantic comedy Women on the Run, directed by Martin Horský, who wrote scripts prior to his record-breaking first directorial outing, brought 1,543,842 paying cinema-goers into theatres, grossing a total of 211 million Czech crowns (€8.4 million). The romantic comedy (which secured a 32.6% share of the Czech market) about women who are “not afraid to run towards luck”, co-produced by CinemArt, the film’s distributor, became the fastest Czech film in...
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