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The Man Who Stood In the Way

62 %|May 25, 2023|Drama, History

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.

Featured Crew

Ivan Fíla
Writer
Miloslav Šmídmajer
Producer
Andriy Suyarko
Co-Producer
Petr Nikolaev
Director
Miroslav Oščatka
Dramaturgy
Volodymyr Filippov
Art Direction
Volodymyr Filippov
Co-Producer
Jan Vlček
Production Design

Cast

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Tomáš Töpfer
František Kriegel
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Zuzana Mauréry
Riva Krieglová
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Adrian Jastraban
Gustav Husák
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Oleksandr Ihnatusha
Leonid Brezhnev
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Alois Švehlík
President Svoboda
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Jiří Ployhar
Oldřich Černík
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Daniel Heriban
Alexander Dubček
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Přemysl Bureš
Josef Smrkovský
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Jaroslav Mendel
Vasil Bilak
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Zuzana Kajnarová
Zora Hynská
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Lukáš Kantor
Josef Špaček
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Antonín Kala
Drahomír Kolder
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Jan Fiala
Alois Indra