The Man Who Stood in the Way
2023 Czech/Ukrainian/Lithuanian film
The Man Who Stood in the Way (Czech: Muž, který stál v cestě, version in Ukrainian: «Вторгнення. Операція “Дунай”», romanized: Vtorgnennia. Operatsiia 'Dunai') is a 2023 historical drama film directed by Petr Nikolaev. The film focuses on František Kriegel, the only political leader who, during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, declined to sign the Moscow Protocol. It is based on a novel by Ivan Fíla of the same name. Fíla was originally set to direct the film.
Cast
Tomáš Töpfer as František Kriegel
Zuzana Mauréry as Riva Kriegelová
Adrian Jastraban as Gustáv Husák
Alois Švehlík as Ludvík Svoboda
Jiří Ployhar ml. as Oldřich Černík
Dano Heriban as Alexander Dubček
Přemysl Bureš as Josef Smrkovský
Oleksandr Ihnatusha as Leonid Brezhnev
Jaroslav Mendel as Vasiľ Biľak
Miroslav Táborský as MUDr. Smrčka
Zuzana Kajnarová as Zora Hynská
Lukáš Kantor as Josef Špaček
Antonín Kala as Drahomír Kolder
Production
First preparations started in 2016 when Ivan Fíla was approached by producer Miloš Šmídmajer with idea to make a film about Kriegel. Fíla agreed and has written a book The man who stood in the way.
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