Božena is a 2021 Czech Biographical miniseries directed by director Lenka Wimmerová. It is a miniseries about Božena Němcová. Czech Television planned to broadcast it in 2020, the year of the bicentenary of the writer's birth, but in the end it was moved to the beginning of 2021. Božena Němcová was portrayed by Anna Kameníková and Anna Geislerová while her husband Josef was portrayed by Jan Hájek.
The first episode premiered on 3 January 2021 on ČT1. The last episode was broadcast for the first time by Czech Television on 24 January 2021.
Cast and characters
Anna Kameníková as Barbora (Božena) Němcová, younger (episode 1 and 2)
Anna Geislerová as Božena Němcová (episode 3 and 4)
Jan Hájek as Josef Němec
Lukáš Melník as medician Josef Čejka
Jan Budař as medician Vilém Dušan Lambl
Eva Josefíková as Antonie Reissová, Božena's friend
Ondřej Malý as František Ladislav Čelakovský
Martin Myšička as Václav Staněk
Klára Suchá as Karolina Staňková
Kryštof Hádek as Jaroslav Pospíšil, publisher
Edita Valášková as Manka, Němec family servant
Veronika Divišová as Dora Němcová, Božena's and Josef's daughter
Prokop Zach as Karel Němec, Božena's and Josef's son
Sebastian Vopěnka as Jaroslav Němec, Božena's and Josef's son
Marek Daniel as Petr Faster
Jan Nedbal as Václav Bolemír Nebeský
Viktor Zavadil as tajný
Vladimír Javorský as Johann Pankel, Božena's father
Lucie Žáčková as Tereza Panklová, Božena's mother
Václav Matějovský as Karel Havlíček Borovský
Martin Finger as páter Václav Štulc
Vladimír Škultéty as Karel Jaromír Erben
Elizaveta Maximová as Johana Mužáková, née. Rottová
Brigita Cmuntová as Žofie Rottová
Adam Joura as Hanuš Jurenka, Božena's lover
Jiří Maryško as František Náprstek-Halánek