Czech Center New York will present a film by Petr Nikolaev "The Man Who Stood in the Way", which depicts the dramatic events of August 21, 1968 in Czechoslovakia. It is a thrilling drama that resonates with the current situation in Ukraine in an striking way.
Free registration here.
The film is in Czech with English subtitles.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Tomáš Töpfer, actor and politician, who played the main role of Dr. František Kriegel in the film, and moderated by Jiří Fisher, former editor of Voice of America. The discussion will be only in Czech.
The Man Who Stood in the Way
Historical drama. Czechia, Ukraine, Lithuania, 2023. Duration 120 min
A thrilling drama focusing on breaking of characters, bending their will and beliefs and in the end, changing lives of millions of people. Frantisek Kriegel, doctor, politician and hero of the Prague Spring was arrested along with five other political leaders (Dubcek, Cernik, Smrkovsky and Spacek) and abducted to Moscow. There, even under threat of death, he was the only Czechoslovak politician to stand up to Brezhnev by refusing to sign the Moscow Protocol that would rubber-stamp the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Further information about the film here.
