
The Man Who Stood In the Way
Movie

The Man Who Stood In the Way
Movie
- Title:The Man Who Stood In the Way
- User score:6.3
- Release date:2023-05-25
- Genres:Drama, History
- Country:Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
- Language:Czech
- Budget:$0
- Revenue:$0
- Runtime:0 min
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

Zuzana Mauréry
Riva Krieglová

Adrian Jastraban
Gustav Husák

Oleksandr Ihnatusha
Leonid Brezhnev

Alois Švehlík
President Svoboda

Jiří Ployhar
Oldřich Černík

Daniel Heriban
Alexander Dubček

Přemysl Bureš
Josef Smrkovský

Jaroslav Mendel
Vasil Bilak

Zuzana Kajnarová
Zora Hynská

Miroslav Táborský
Dr. Smrčka

Antonín Kala
Drahomír Kolder
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