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A story of an individual standing up to the Soviet Union
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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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Tomáš TöpferFrantišek Kriegel
Zuzana MauréryRiva Krieglová
Adrian JastrabanGustav Husák
Oleksandr IhnatushaLeonid Brezhnev
Alois ŠvehlíkPresident Svoboda
Jiří PloyharOldřich Černík
Daniel HeribanAlexander Dubček
Přemysl BurešJosef Smrkovský
Jaroslav MendelVasil Bilak
Zuzana KajnarováZora Hynská
Miroslav TáborskýDr. SmrčkaExplore the crew
- Producer
- Miloslav Šmídmajer
- Producer
- Pavel Šmídmajer
- Director
- Petr Nikolaev
- Director of Photography
- Ramūnas Greičius
- Writer
- Ivan Fíla