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The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023)

The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023)

Drama History

A story of an individual standing up to the Soviet Union

Release Date: 2023, May 25
Directors: Petr Nikolaev
Countries: Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Production: Bio Illusion, Artbox, Insight Media Producing Center
Cast: Miroslav Táborský, Zuzana Mauréry, Adrian Jastraban, Alois Švehlík, Jiří Ployhar, Přemysl Bureš, Oleksandr Ihnatusha, Tomáš Töpfer, Zuzana Kajnarová, Lukáš Kantor, Daniel Heriban, Jaroslav Mendel

Overview:

A drama that tells the story of the physician and politician MUDr. František Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow on the night of August 21st together with five leaders of the party and the state (Dubček, Černík, Smrkovský, Špaček and Šimon). He was the only Czechoslovak politician who managed to stand up to Brezhnev in Moscow captivity, even under the threat of liquidation, and not to sign the Moscow Protovol which meant agreeing to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Keywords:

1960s prague spring (1968)