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(PARIS2024) FRANCE-PARIS-OLY-FENCING

(240802) -- PARIS, Aug. 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Coach Oldrich Kubista (L) of the Czech Republic reacts during the men's epee team bronze medal match of fencing between the Czech Republic and France at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 2, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Fei Maohua)

Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

***FILE PHOTO*** Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel died on Saturday evening on September 5, 2020, aged 82, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday and Menzel's assistant Mila Radova confirmed the information to CTK. *** Film director Jiri Menzel, left, talks with pop singer Vaclav Neckar playing Milos Hrma during filming of the Oscar winning movie Ostre sledovane vlaky (Closely Watched Trains) based on Bohumil Hrabalｴs novel in 1966. CTK Photo/Oldrich Picha

Czech regional and Senate elections, cat, nursing home for elderly people, Janovice nad Uhlavou

Czech regional and Senate elections, cat, nursing home for elderly people, Janovice nad Uhlavou

Therapeutic cat Oldrich at the nursing home for elderly people in Janovice nad Uhlavou during the regional and Senate elections Czech Republic, October 2, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

Czech regional and Senate elections, cat, nursing home for elderly people, Janovice nad Uhlavou

Czech regional and Senate elections, cat, nursing home for elderly people, Janovice nad Uhlavou

Therapeutic cat Oldrich at the nursing home for elderly people in Janovice nad Uhlavou during the regional and Senate elections Czech Republic, October 2, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

Czech regional and Senate elections, cat, nursing home for elderly people, Janovice nad Uhlavou

Czech regional and Senate elections, cat, nursing home for elderly people, Janovice nad Uhlavou

Therapeutic cat Oldrich at the nursing home for elderly people in Janovice nad Uhlavou during the regional and Senate elections Czech Republic, October 2, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

***FILE PHOTO*** Czech director Jiri Menzel, left, and Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal in Prague, Czech Republic, October 17, 1966. (CTK Photo/Oldrich Picha) *** Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel died on Saturday evening on September 5, 2020, aged 82, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday and Menzel's assistant Mila Radova confirmed the information to CTK.

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova (CTK Photo/Martin Sterba)

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova (CTK Photo/Martin Sterba)

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova (CTK Photo/Martin Sterba)

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova (CTK Photo/Martin Sterba)

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova

money, 500 CZK, five hundred, Czech koruna, Czech crown, banknote designed by Oldrich Kulhanek, portrait of Bozena Nemcova (CTK Photo/Martin Sterba)

Pavel Kohout, Vlasta Tresnak, Pavel Landovsky, Vlasta Chramostova, Tereza Bouckova, living-room theatre, dissidents

Pavel Kohout, Vlasta Tresnak, Pavel Landovsky, Vlasta Chramostova, Tereza Bouckova, living-room theatre, dissidents

***FILE PHOTO*** From left playwright, novelist and poet Pavel Kohout, singer Vlasta Tresnak, actors Pavel Landovsky, Vlasta Chramostova and Tereza Bouckova, Kohout's daughter, during a performance in Vlasta Chramostova's appartment in Prague, 1989. Because dissident theatre workers had been banned from working in the official theatre, they formed the company Living-Room Theatre to covertly perform an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Vlasta Chramostova, a Czech theatre and film actress and a former leading anti-communist dissident and Charter 77 human rights manifesto signatory, died on October 6, 2019, aged 92. (CTK Photo/Oldrich Skacha)

Oldrich Cervenka Memorial in the Krkonose Mountains, Mound, Mountains

Oldrich Cervenka Memorial in the Krkonose Mountains, Mound, Mountains

Monument to Oldrich Cervenka, who died under a snow avalanche in the Krkonose Mountains, Czech Republic, 2019. (CTK Photo/Rostislav Kalousek)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Oldrich Cech, 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery

Czech orthopedist Oldrich Czech speaks during a press briefing to mark 50th anniversary of first total hip replacement surgery performed in then Czechoslovakia by him in Prague's First Orthopedic Clinic, on February 27, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)