The Man Who Stood In the Way
Muž, který stál v cestě
Drama
History
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.
2023-05-25
cs
Cast
Director
Petr Nikolaev
Tomáš Töpfer as František Kriegel
Zuzana Mauréry as Riva Krieglová
Adrian Jastraban as Gustav Husák
Oleksandr Ihnatusha as Leonid Brezhnev
Alois Švehlík as President Svoboda
Jiří Ployhar as Oldřich Černík
Daniel Heriban as Alexander Dubček
Přemysl Bureš as Josef Smrkovský
Jaroslav Mendel as Vasil Bilak
Zuzana Kajnarová as Zora Hynská
Miroslav Táborský as Dr. Smrčka
Antonín Kala as Drahomír Kolder
Gustav Řezníček as Jan Piller