There is interest in the shelter tours at Kino Hvězda, the dates are fully booked

The first interested visitors to the cinema's underground will set out on Sunday at 09:00. According to Měrková, the tours filled up almost immediately. "It was practically sold out as soon as we posted the information online. However, interest has not waned; people continue to come and ask. We have therefore already announced another possible date, which is the public holiday on November 17, both tours are already half filled again," said the cinema manager.

Přerov's Hvězda is one of three cinemas in the republic located in a nuclear shelter. In its interiors, up to 900 people could take refuge if necessary. According to Měrková, it is also the only cinema that opens the shelter to the public. The cinema plans to open the shelter on selected four public holidays each year. Other dates will be May 8 and September 28, Měrková added.

Visitors on the tour will enter the command room behind the screen and will also peek into the ventilation room and the water management section, where there are two tanks of 4000 liters each for drinking water. The tour will also include a special exhibition featuring a collection of gas masks from the oldest wartime versions to the newest ones, special suits for children, a box for infants, or a mask for a dog. Visitors will also see an evacuation bag and a storage area for "period" foods.

The cinema has also prepared a screening of a fifty-minute film about the history of shelters in Přerov, tickets for the screening are still available. After Prague, Přerov had the most shelters, with a total of 168, accommodating 38,000 people. The shelter in the cinema, built in 1975, is the largest in the city. Through the film, people will glance into selected shelters in the city, whether in schools, residential buildings, factories, dance halls, or underpasses. The audience will also learn what an evacuation would look like, and there will be period archival footage of Přerov from the 1970s to the 1990s.