Speaking with Czech Radio, Bregant said only two Czech films have been restored to date - Marketa Lazerova, voted the best Czech film of all time by local critics, and Milos Forman's iconic film The Fireman's Ball, which was privately financed. Bregant said digital restoration in the Czech Republic costs approximate one million CZK (40,000 EUR).

The Czech National Film Archives is one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1943 to protect the country's rich film history from wartime destruction. 

Neighboring Poland and Slovakia have been more active in the restoration process, with some 80 Slovak films already restored. The Czech National Film Archives is dependent on funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture, which has not allotted money for film restoration. However, Bregant said that Vojtěch Jasný's 1968 film All My Good Countrymen and a 1948 film by the seminal theatre director Alfred Radok, Distant Journey, are on the Archives' shortlist for restoration.