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The Man Who Stood In the Way

"A story of an individual standing up to the Soviet Union"

2023-05-25
6.3
cs
DramaHistory
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.

Dramaturgy

Mária Rudlovčáková

Producer

Miloslav Šmídmajer

Makeup Artist

Eva Ungrová-Malíková

Producer

Pavel Šmídmajer

Production Design

Jan Vlček

Director

Petr Nikolaev

prague spring (1968) 1960s

Status

Released

Countries

  • Czech Republic
  • Lithuania
  • Ukraine

Companies

  • Bio Illusion
  • Artbox
  • Insight Media Producing Center

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