The Man Who Stood In the Way

May. 25,2023      
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Tomáš Töpfer as  František Kriegel
Zuzana Mauréry as  Riva Krieglová
Adrian Jastraban as  Gustav Husák
Oleksandr Ihnatusha as  Leonid Brezhnev
Alois Švehlík as  President Svoboda
Jiří Ployhar as  Oldřich Černík
Daniel Heriban as  Alexander Dubček
Přemysl Bureš as  Josef Smrkovský
Jaroslav Mendel as  Vasil Bilak
Zuzana Kajnarová as  Zora Hynská

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