VIZE 97’s health spot on Czech TV
Last year, the VIZE 97 Foundation succeeded in persuading the Czech TV that the Foundation’s health spot be broadcast on Czech TV channels. The spot focuses on one of the Foundation’s main health projects, i.e. the “Timely Diagnosis and Prevention of Large Intestine and Rectal Cancer”. Throughout the year, viewers of the public television will thus be kept informed on the possibility of a free faecal occult blood test for all people above the age of fifty. This way, VIZE 97 continues its longstanding efforts to make the general public aware of this serious, tumorous disease, which is successfully treated in most cases if detected early enough.
The health spot, directed by Jan Hřebejk, one of the most distinct and most successful Czech directors of the present, has already been broadcast on Czech TV channels a couple of times. However, the current version of the spot has been slightly modified, under the conduct of director Hřebejk again. The spot newly features President Václav Havel and actress Ivana Chýlková. In addition to these two figures, the cast also includes Dagmar Havlová, Marta Kubišová, Jiří Suchý, Jiří Bartoška, Oldřich Kaiser and Prof. MUDr. Miroslav Zavoral, Ph.D., Head of the Internal Medicine Clinic at the Central Military Hospital and member of the VIZE 97’s Health Project. All creators and performers assumed their respective roles at no fee.
