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The Man Who Stood In the Way

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.

2023 |- |  Drama, History

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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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Miroslav Táborský

Dr. Smrčka

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Antonín Kala

Drahomír Kolder

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Gustav Řezníček

Jan Piller

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Status

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Language

Czech

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