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The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023)

6.3 | May 25, 2023 (CZ) | Drama, History | 00:00

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.

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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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