The Man Who Stood In the Way

6.3 / 10

(3 votes)

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.

Country:

Czech Republic,

Lithuania,

Ukraine

Genre:

Drama,

History

Duration:

0 minutes

Year:

2023

Director:

Petr Nikolaev

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Company:

Bio Illusion,

Artbox,

Insight Media Producing Center

Cast:
Tomáš Töpfer

František Kriegel

Zuzana Mauréry

Riva Krieglová

Adrian Jastraban

Gustav Husák

Oleksandr Ihnatusha

Leonid Brezhnev

Alois Švehlík

President Svoboda

Crew:
Petr Nikolaev

Director

Ramūnas Greičius

Director of Photography

Ivan Fíla

Writer

Mária Rudlovčáková

Dramaturgy

Miroslav Oščatka

Dramaturgy