The Man Who Stood In the Way
A story of an individual standing up to the Soviet Union
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- Drama
- History
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 2023
- Original language
- Czech
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
- Production
- Artbox,Bio Illusion,Insight Media Producing Center
- Cast
- Alois Švehlík,Antonín Kala,Jiří Ployhar,Přemysl Bureš,Oleksandr Klauning,Miroslav Táborský,Oleksandr Ihnatusha,Sergei Dashevsky,Lukáš Kantor,Jan Fialaand 7 more
- Director
- Petr Nikolaev
- Writer
- Ivan Fíla
- Cinematography
- Ramūnas Greičius
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt21835206