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The Man Who Stood In the Way
The Man Who Stood In the Way
Drama, History 05/25/2023

The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023)

"A story of an individual standing up to the Soviet Union"

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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.

Petr Nikolaev

Director

Ivan Fíla

Writer

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