The Man Who Stood In the Way
#A story of an individual standing up to the Soviet Union
Watch The Man Who Stood In the Way on 123movies. 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.
- Genre: Drama, History
- Country: Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
- Director: Petr Nikolaev
- Cast: Tomáš Töpfer, Zuzana Mauréry, Adrian Jastraban, Oleksandr Ihnatusha, Alois Švehlík, Jiří Ployhar, Daniel Heriban, Přemysl Bureš, Jaroslav Mendel, Zuzana Kajnarová, Miroslav Táborský, Lukáš Kantor, Antonín Kala, Gustav Řezníček, Jan Fiala, Oleksandr Klauning, Sergei Dashevsky,
