The Man Who Stood In the Way
The Man Who Stood In the Way, Франтішек Крігель проти...
Original title: Muž, který stál v cestě
Original language: cs
IMDB: tt21835206
TMDB: 1104164
Release date: Thursday, 25th May
2023
Adult: No
Duration:
Popularity: 2.822
Rate: 6.2 / 4 votes
Overview: 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.