The Man Who Stood In the Way
The Man Who Stood In the Way

The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023)

2023-05-25

(LT) •

Drama,

History

A story of an individual standing up to the Soviet Union

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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.

Movie Cast

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Tomáš Töpfer

František Kriegel

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Zuzana Mauréry

Riva Krieglová

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Adrian Jastraban

Gustav Husák

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Oleksandr Ihnatusha

Leonid Brezhnev

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Alois Švehlík

President Svoboda

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Jiří Ployhar

Oldřich Černík

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Daniel Heriban

Alexander Dubček

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Přemysl Bureš

Josef Smrkovský

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Jaroslav Mendel

Vasil Bilak

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Zuzana Kajnarová

Zora Hynská

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Miroslav Táborský

Dr. Smrčka

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Lukáš Kantor

Josef Špaček

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Antonín Kala

Drahomír Kolder

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Gustav Řezníček

Jan Piller

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Jan Fiala

Alois Indra

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Oleksandr Klauning

Kosigyn

The Man Who Stood In the Way

Sergei Dashevsky