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The Man Who Stood In the Way
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.
Stars: Tomáš Töpfer, Zuzana Mauréry, Adrian Jastraban, Oleksandr Ihnatusha, Alois Švehlík, Jiří Ployhar
Crew: Mária Rudlovčáková (Dramaturgy), Miloslav Šmídmajer (Producer), Eva Ungrová-Malíková (Makeup Artist), Pavel Šmídmajer (Producer), Jan Vlček (Production Design), Petr Nikolaev (Director)
Country: Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Language: Český
Studio: Bio Illusion, Artbox, Insight Media Producing Center
Runtime: 1:47:31 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 25, 2023
IMDb: 4.8
Keywords:prague spring (1968), 1960s
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