The Man Who Stood In the Way
25/05/2023
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.
Movie Information
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
Lukáš Kantor
as Josef Špaček
Antonín Kala
as Drahomír Kolder
Gustav Řezníček
as Jan Piller
Jan Fiala
as Alois Indra
Oleksandr Klauning
as Kosigyn
Sergei Dashevsky
as
