The Man Who Stood In the Way
Release Date: 2023-05-25
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.
Rating: 6.3 / 10
Cast
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
Crew
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Petr Nikolaev - Director
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Ramūnas Greičius - Director of Photography
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Ivan Fíla - Writer
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Mária Rudlovčáková - Dramaturgy
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Miroslav Oščatka - Dramaturgy
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